Oct.13 (GMM) After admitting mounting financial losses, the independent British F1 team Williams is now facing a fresh hit of bad news.
One of its major sponsors, the Royal Bank of Scotland, is a high profile casualty of the current global financial crisis, as the British government prepares to bail it out.
RBS chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin, meanwhile, is set to step down.
The British bank is therefore expected to wind up its sports sponsorship programmes in the near future.
A spokesman for RBS, which also sponsors European rugby, British golf, equestrian sports and tennis, would not comment on the future of those sponsorships.
Williams' RBS contract, scheduled to run until 2010, is estimated at about $14m per season.
Written: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:00:03
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