Christian Horner weighs in on FIA v F1 debate over Andretti-Cadillac's potential entry
The FIA and F1 are odds over 🧔welcoming new F1 teams to the🤡 grid.
There’s concerns from F1, and the teams themselves, about how a new team would impact the current pr♔ize 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 sam𒈔e championship position.
FIA presi꧃dent Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been very open to allowing new entries, such as Andretti-Cadillac, while F1 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 allo💖wing new teams into the sport.
In an interview with RACER, Horner explained how he think🐟s having Andretti on the grid would be “exciting” but admitted a solution would need to be found with regards to the finances.
“This view would be common to any team — it’s irꦯrelevant,” Horner said.
“As I said, to have the Andretti brand and nam🃏e and Cadillac in F1 would be fantastic, and hopefully a solution can be found.
“You can understand the FIA, they’ve got no financial conse🔯quence of this because they don’t participate in the prize fund, and they🤪’d receive further entry fees for more teams coming in.
“So you can understand the FIA pote💯ntially wanting more teams on the grid. Bꦇut 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 have a sensible conversation and a💝gree somethin🌄g that is practical and workable.”
The FIA𓃲 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 again to voice his concerns over a p🍰otential bid, while F1 rebuked him ওwith a letter to the FIA.
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