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Franchise Notes: Toto Wolff Says Ferrari Is Paying The Price For Its Rapid Improvement

Mercedes Motorsport Dir Toto Wolff believes Ferrari is paying the price for its "rapid rate of improvement this year" and has effectively "reached their limits." Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel "has enjoyed the fastest car for much of this season -- certainly for most of the recent Asian swing -- but reliability issues, particularly relating to his engine," have seen the German fall from three points behind Lewis Hamilton to 59 points behind the Mercedes driver "in the space of just three races." Wolff: "In this sport you take no prisoners. It is about having the fastest car, the best driver and the most solid performance" (London TELEGRAPH, 10/9).

League Two side Morecambe's financial future "is secure for at least the next two years," Graham Burnard of majority shareholder G50 Holdings said. Funding has been guaranteed to the English Football League by former Morecambe co-Chair Abdulrahman Al Hashemi, who is based in Qatar. However, the club remains up for sale, "should the right investor make an approach to take over" (BBC, 10/9).

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