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Manor passes FIA crash tests

Manor has overcome another hurdle ahead of a return to the grid as it has announced it has passed the mandatory FIA crash tests.

The former Marussia team exited administration over the past two weeks and has had to modify its 2014 cars in order to meet the 2015 regulations. One of the major challenges it had to overcome was the FIA crash tests, which the team announced on Twitter that the updated car had successfully passed.

The cars can now fly out to Australia on Friday ahead of the first race of the season in Melbourne next weekend. Manor will use 2014 Ferrari power units, while the team confirmed yesterday it plans on introducing a brand new 2015 car mid-season.

So far only Will Stevens has been named as one of the team's drivers, with the second race seat still vacant 10 days before the opening race of the season.

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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.