Andretti’s plans took a step nearer to changing into a actuality when the team was approved by the FIA, and it now falls to the F1 organisation and its proprietor Liberty to evaluate the business place of the potential new entrant.
Present team bosses have continued to express their opposition to a new team coming in, in essence due to the longer term requirement to divide the prize fund 11 methods as a substitute of 10.
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Horner additionally urged that Andretti ought to comply with Audi’s instance by shopping for an present staff, and that its companion Cadillac ought to are available in with its personal engine as a substitute of lending its title to an outfit that intends to utilise Renault buyer energy items.
“I see this very a lot as a difficulty between FIA and Liberty,” Horner advised Sky Sports activities F1. “FIA are the regulator, Liberty are the promoter, and subsequently they management the funding of the game.
“In fact, one other staff coming in, how is that going to be funded? I believe these guys have to get collectively and are available to us with a proposal of what they need.
“I believe that to have GM coming specifically into F1 is a massively Positive factor. We’re seeing Ford coming again in ’26, Ford versus GM can be unbelievable.
“I believe they should do their very own engine, and I believe that if you have a look at how Audi has come into the game, they’ve acquired an present staff and an present franchise, ought to or not it’s totally different for the others?
“I believe that is the place Liberty and the FIA have to get collectively and are available to us with a collective place. As a result of you possibly can’t have one rule for one, and one other for others.”
Michael Andretti on the grid
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Requested if the engine challenge was key, Horner admitted the share of the prize fund being break up into smaller chunks was probably the most urgent challenge.
“Clearly, cash makes the world go spherical,” he stated. “That is what each staff can be acutely delicate of, and the franchise worth being diluted. All of the sudden you go from 10 to 11. So, in fact, the stakeholders, the shareholders of every particular person staff can have a priority about that.”
He added: “About six years in the past, there have been 4 groups getting ready to leaving. I believe the game has turned itself round, it is reinvented itself, and it is in nice form and large energy now. And naturally, these 10 groups are successfully now franchises. They usually have a worth.
“Their shareholders can be trying to shield their worth in that funding. They’ve invested throughout the staff billions and billions of {dollars} or kilos.
“I believe the groups can be trying to see, okay, what does this panorama appear to be, each commercially and operationally?”
Horner additionally urged that some venues could not address an additional staff.
“Let’s face it, the place would we put them in Zandvoort, for instance?” Horner added. “So I believe there’s some operational points to beat as properly.
“I believe that is for Liberty and the FIA to get collectively, come to us with a proposal after which we will all take into account it.”