The FIA has acquired a number of entry requests to develop the grid past the present 10 groups.
Michael Andretti’s high-profile bid is believed to be near being permitted by the governing physique. However Andretti continues to be going through fierce resistance from F1, which can even should approve any entry, and nearly all of the groups as a result of considerations over their prize fund being diluted.
Chatting with Motorsport.com and Autosport’s sister web site Motorsport-Whole, McLaren chief Brown believes that, offered the present $200m anti-dilution price is no less than tripled within the subsequent Concorde Settlement from 2026, a viable growth group could possibly be financially useful for the prevailing outfits.
When requested why he would help an eleventh group diluting the prize cash, Brown replied: “As a result of I imagine I am not giving up that cash.
“It needs to be the fitting group with the fitting assets. Let’s assume for a second it’s. In the event that they pay the fitting franchise price – which isn’t 200 million, as an instance it is 700 million – then I get 70 million.
“The dilution of an eleventh group is about 10 million a yr. So, if I get 70, will probably be protecting me for seven years.
“Then if it prices 700 simply to enter, it is created 700 million extra in franchise worth. So, no matter I am value right now, choose a quantity… two billion, now I am value 2.7 billion.
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He added: “Additionally, when you have an eleventh group, the shortage is even larger as a result of there’s solely room for 12 groups. As quickly as there’s 12, now you are bought out, in order that drives the demand up.”
IndyCar stalwart Andretti, who has rebranded his worldwide racing organisation to Andretti World, tapped up American OEM Basic Motors for his F1 programme, though it’s but to develop into clear simply how concerned GM can be.
However Brown identified that even when GM had been simply to deal with F1 as a branding train, a few of the advertising and marketing cash it spends within the sequence would additionally trickle right down to the groups.
“The groups get 70% of the cash that comes into the game. If Basic Motors is available in they usually spend circuit promoting, sponsor a race, as an instance they spend some Paddock Membership, they spend 100 million a yr, we get 70 of that,” he defined.
“So, unexpectedly, the 100 that they are taking out of the system, they’re placing 70 of it again or 50 of it again. After which on the proper franchise quantity, I am not getting diluted.
“I do not know sufficient about Andretti’s bid to have a view on whether or not they need to or should not [be accepted]. Nobody’s seen the bid.
“But when somebody’s ready to pay the fitting franchise price, it is a high quality racing group, we all know who they’re and the place their cash is from they usually’re bringing an OEM they usually’re paying the fitting price, then I do not see it as diluting. I see it as additive.”