The Belfast Telegraph reports that Kris Meeke and Dani Sordo have been summoned to a meeting tomorrow at the Banbury headquarters of Prodrive after the team missed the deadline to sign up for next year’s World rally championship. Of additional concern is the loss of a major sponsor due to its owner's arrest.
Senior members of Prodrive management have admitted they urgently need a major sponsor but the quest to find one has not been helped by the on-going question marks over next season’s television coverage after the parent company of rights holder, North One Sport, went into receivership following the arrest of owner Vladimir Antonov.
The Russian, also the principal shareholder of Portsmouth Football Club which has gone into administration, has been accused of a massive 1.6m dollar fraud involving a bank he owns in Lithuania
