Andretti’s wish to become the 11th team on the F1 grid has been approved by the FIA but🌟 must now be decided by Formula One Management.

“There is no way it will be a rift,” Ben Sulayem told . “The press can✤ write whatever they wa✱nt! 

“Look a🐠t how a relationship can🦋 be improved - fairness.

“The FIA must be strong, and has to be strong, to make sure we are up to the chall🐓enge.

♒“We cannot be weaker than the teams or the FOM. No way.”

Andretti’s proposed entry, with Cadillac, has caused controversy iཧn the F1 paddock.

Many are against the addition of an extra team, and are concern꧋ed that their entry would dilute the prize money available to each🤡 team.

“The process 🌺was not easy but the due dili🌞gence was done,” Ben Sulayem said.

“The process opening the expression of interest was a big move fo🔯r the FIA.

“We have 12 teams allowed. Most of the circuits [can fit] more t⛄han 12. We had the Hollywood movie going [at Silverstone] on so we had an extra teℱam anyway!

“It can only add to the sport.

“Look at our side as the FIA. What is our mission, our ob❀jective? Our mission is clear: promote motorsport, grow motorsp🦄ort, and be fair.”

Asked if🙈 he expected the FOM to ac꧑cept Andretti, Ben Sulayem said: “All the confidence. Just common sense. I could have done this process a long time ago, and approved it.

“But I🌳 took my time. Why? Listening to the others. Engaging with the FOM, with Stefano Domenicali about how to go about it.

“We asked the right questions to Cadillac and 💟Andretti. They came back to us and there was no way we could resist them.

“It is good for the sport. I 𓃲am confident it will go throug𒁃h.”