Motor racing-Mosley asks F1 teams to cut costs, fuel consumption

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By Alan Baldwin

SILVERSTONE, England, July 3 (Reuters) - Formula One's governing body warned on Thursday that the sport was "becoming unsustainable" and invited teams to come up with new rules to slash costs and halve fuel consumption by 2015.

"The major manufacturers are currently employing up to 1,000 people to put two cars on the (starting) grid," International Automobile Federation (FIA) president Max Mosley wrote in a letter to the 10 teams at the British Grand ...

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