Caterham F1 st𝔉aff were locked out of the team's factory in Leafield on Thursday as administrators seek a resolution to ownership problems.

Finbarr O'Connell, a joint administrator of Caterham Sports Limited (CSL), confirmed that 1 Malaysia Racing Team (1MRT) had made an offer to continu🦋e work at the factory on Wednesday which he had rejected. Following that, the new buyers of the team claimed they are♈n't the legal owners and said Tony Fernandes still had control.

With the new buyers saying Fernandes has to now sort out the situation, O'Connell confirmed theꦑ factory has b🌳een closed.

"They [the staff] can't get into the factory today," O'Connell told Reuters. "They [1MRT] are ༒using my facilitඣies and haven't paid me.

"Effectively 1MRT have been in the building for last few days since I arrived. We are trying to reach an acceptable arrangement🌠 for them to be there. We had a meeting yesterday with 1MRT 𓆉and lawyers and the offer they made was unacceptable. So I've sent them away.

"Hopefully they can come up wi♏th an acceptable proposal."