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Decryption – Why did F1 finally accept the arrival of General Motors as the 11th team in 2026?
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Where was Andretti's candidacy?
Having wanted to join the grid for three years, Andretti Global has so far faced a path strewn with pitfalls, wiping out refusal after refusal since the beginning of its project. Let's go back in time. Engaged mainly in Indycar (but also in Formula E, IMSA, Extreme E), the team had first tried to make a place for itself by trying to buy Sauber in 2021, before the transaction failed and Hinwil will ultimately be sold to Audi in 2022. From then on, the troops of Michael Andretti, former team boss and son of the 1 F1978 world champion, Mario Andretti, undertook a major, if not impossible, operation to convince the main characters of the incredible film that is the Formula 1, to make a place for it as the eleventh stable.
By joining forces with General Motors (the leading manufacturer in
Jeremy Satis
Deputy Digital Editor & F1 Reporter
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DANIEL MEYERS
26/11/2024 at 11:23 a.m.
@LAURENT MOLINEAU: ToyotaStellantis?!!!
DANIEL MEYERS
26/11/2024 at 10:59 a.m.
"the opening, by the American Department of Justice (DoJ), of an investigation into the monopoly position of Liberty Media" with possibly several hundred million dollars in fines the key, here it is the main (the only?) reason for this 'acceleration' Knowing that in the motivations for the refusal there was the fact that they did not have their own engine and that there 12 months before their arrival they do not have one at all! what a farce. As for announcing an engine for 2028, just for 3 seasons? because the new engine regulations go from 26 to 30 inclusive, right? or is an episode missing?
LAURENT MOLINEAU
26/11/2024 at 10:09 a.m.
With Audi's almost stillborn project, this is what one might think when looking at the economic situation in Europe, the abandonment of Renault and the Hass ToyotaStellantis... bringing in Cadillac is an insurance policy in the event of a disaster!