Christian Horner weighs in on FIA v F1 debate over Andretti-Cadillac's potential entry
The FIA and F1 ar🌠e odds over welcoming new 🃏F1 teams to the grid.
There’s concerns from F1, and the teams them✨selves, about how a new𒉰 team would impact the current prize pool.
If an 11th team joined the grid for 2023, simply-speaking, the existing 10 teams would receive less prize money than they did for 2022 for finishing in the same championsh🐟ip position.
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been very open to allowing new entries, such as Andretti-Cadillac, wꦏhile F1ꦇ has had a lukewarm view thus far.
Both the FIA and F1 - whether that’s Liberty Media or FOM - need to be in agreement when weighing up on allowing nဣew teams into the🐬 sport.
In an interview with RACER, Horner explained how he thinks having Andretti on the grid would be “exciting” but admitted a solution would need to be found w🍌ith regards to the finances.
“This view would be common to any team — it’s irre꧋lev🐟ant,” Horner said.
“As I 🌱said, to♌ have the Andretti brand and name and Cadillac in F1 would be fantastic, and hopefully a solution can be found.
“You can understand the FIA, they’ve got no financial consequence of this because they doꦦn’t participate in the prize fund, and they’d receive further entry fees for ܫmore teams coming in.
“So you can unꦐde⛎rstand the FIA potentially wanting more teams on the grid. But I think they need to find alignment with the commercial rights holder, and the 2026 Concorde Agreement would seem the right place to deal with that.
“It just needs all parties to h✨ave a sensible conversation and agree something that is practical and w🦋orkable.”
The FIA v F1 battle is set to roll on with reports emerging of a $20bn bid from Saudi Arabia to take over the ♊sport.
Ben Sulayem took to Twitter 𝓡again to voice his🌟 concerns over a potential bid, while F1 rebuked him with a letter to the FIA.
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