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Formula One Teams To Meet To Replace F1 Chair Peter Brabeck-Letmathe

F1 teams "will this week be consulted on who will become the new chairman of their sport, as the current incumbent is stepping down to battle a long-running illness," according to Christian Sylt for the London INDEPENDENT. In the long term the new chairman will lead the committee which decides who replaces F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone, "when he decides to stand down, however, he does not represent a threat to the F1 chief executive." Current F1 Chair Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, an Austrian businessman, is "undergoing treatment for a curable illness." One of the candidates "is understood to be Paul Walsh, the former head of drinks group Diageo" (INDEPENDENT, 12/9).

PICKING TEAMS: In London, Kevin Eason wrote Jenson Button’s fate in F1 "will be announced by McLaren" on Thursday. The team is "preparing a ceremony to announce the driver-line-up for 2015." Fernando Alonso "will be the star unveiling but it remans a mystery whether Button will get a sixteenth season in the sport." However, it is thought McLaren is "more likely to go with the youth of Kevin Magnussen, Button’s 21-year-old team-mate of last season." Stoffel Vendoorne, the "rising star" of GP2, "has an outside choice of partnering Alonso" (LONDON TIMES, 12/10).

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