F1: Runway cuts 'may have contributed'to crash'

Deep cuts made in a grass runway to improve drainage may have contributed to a plane crash which killed a key member of David Coulthard’s motor racing team, an official accident report said today.

The Second World War Hawker Sea Fury aircraft, piloted by McLaren Mercedes engineer Paul Morgan, 52, overturned on landing at Sywell Aerodrome in Northamptonshire.