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Campos woes should be solved by Monday

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Adrian Campos, boss of struggling Campos Meta, is hoping that the problems that have beset the team should be solved by Monday.

Speculation has been rife that the team has been crippled by financial difficulties and is unable to pay Italian manufacturer Dallara for producing its car. However, Campos is confident that it will still make the grid in Bahrain.

"We are trying to have everything solved on Monday, but people are saying a lot of stupid things," he told BBC Sport. "Some are true and some are not. We are working very hard to be in Bahrain."

The most likely saviour of the team is South African entrepreneur Tony Teixeira who backed the now defunct A1GP series. However, Campos would not confirm that the rescue plan involved a partial sale.

"The problem is we have confidentiality clauses in everything we are doing," he said.

He did admit that payments to Dallara have not always been made on time: "Sometimes we pay the €7 million [installment] to Dallara and sometimes we don't have the money. We are trying to solve the problem."

He denied that Dallara has grown tired of waiting for the money and instead sold the 2010 car to hopeful entrant Stefan GP: "No, they [Dallara] can't do that - we have a contract with them."

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