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Old 8 Dec 2015, 17:06 (Ref:3596449)   #15
Mike Harte
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Originally Posted by chillibowl View Post
to be a professional sport and to be an professional athlete one must be paid by the team that they perform for. if the athlete is the one paying the team then they are not professional athletes and as such its not a professional sport.
Not exactly the same, but near enough, is the case of Michael Schumacher and now, apparently, Alonso. Schumacher's drive at Ferrari was paid for by Philip Morris (he received no fees from Ferrari), whilst it is believed that Alonso is paid by Honda.

This is surely the same type of arrangement that the pay-to-drive lot have with the teams; it would be hard to tell where the sponsorship stopped and the bought drive starts.
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