The payment clause was contained in the Concorde Agreement, the contract which commits the teams to race in F1. It expired at the end of last year and, as a replacement, Mr Ecclestone has signed separate commercial agreements with each team. The exception is the 11th-placed team Marussia and Mr Ecclestone says “they don’t have a commercial agreement because they are not in the top ten. We pay the top ten, that’s what we do. For three years we did something different because we had an agreement with Max but from now on we will pay the top ten and that is it.”