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Virtually ready...

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This is the Manor F1 Team Twitter account - formerly the Marussia one - which the team has updated ahead of a planned move to exit administration next week. While the Strategy Group blocked a move to run a 2014 car next season, Manor says it already had approval for what it can use and has been hard at work for a number of months. The F1 Commission could also ratify the entry, so is this a sign we'll have ten teams on the grid in Australia? Fingers crossed...

Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.