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Mercedes pays record fee to enter 2015 season
Mercedes is paying the highest ever fee to enter the 2015 world championship.
The German team may have triumphantly dominated last year's titles, but one unpleasant consequence is a hefty FIA bill to the tune of almost $5 million.
The cost of merely entering the world championship was changed in recent years, when instead of a flat fee teams were also asked to pay per point scored in the previous season.
But the cost just got even higher. Last year, the flat fee was $508,000, while now it is $516,000, the German specialist publication Auto Motor und Sport repored.
And the variable performance element of the entry cost has also gone up for 2015, with each point now costing teams $5,161, up...
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