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It's so weird to be a business in a performance based industry owned by the government. Any government. Governments are generally concerned with a lot of things, but performance is not one of them. I wonder if this specific stakeholder would care more about the Renault engine than any of the other F1 elements, because that's where most of the actually French jobs are.

It kind of reminds me of the NBA where David Stern said no to the Chris Paul trade, because while the trade served the interests of the basketball team trying to execute it, it did not serve the interests of the owners of that basketball team (the NBA themselves). Perhaps this can be the same thing, where axing the Renault engine would be great for Alpine, but not so great for those who own the Alpine F1 team, and therefore it'd end up not happening.

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