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It's a lot like what happened a decade ago with NASCAR trying to attract new fans, but at the same time trying not to alienate the older fans who liked things "they way they were" but were still putting lots of money in.A sport desperate for US acceptance through cringe events whilst turning down a US team's application is pathetic.
It's unfortunate, but when Sergio Marchionne passed on and FCA became Stellantis the writing was on the wall. F1 participation is expensive and a company as large and unwieldy as them is going to look at dropping that as the first way to save money, especially since they've all but retreated out of just about every other motorsports series over the last few years.Alfa Romeo is exiting F1 after this race.
Cowardly decision.
Not a cool move FOM! They should at least come out and say why they rejected Andretti. Especially if everything was properly lined up for them to join and they hit every check marks.
1)The need for any new team to take a compulsory power unit supply, potentially over a period of several seasons, would be damaging to the prestige and standing of the Championship.2)While the Andretti name carries some recognition for F1 fans, our research indicates that F1 would bring value to the Andretti brand rather than the other way around.3) The addition of an 11th team would place an operational burden on race promoters, would subject some of them to significant costs, and would reduce the technical, operational and commercial spaces of the other competitors.4) We were not able to identify any material expected positive effect on CRH financial results, as a key indicator of the pure commercial value of the Championship.5) On the basis of the application as it stands, we do not believe that the Applicant has shown that it would add value to the Championship. We conclude that the Applicant’s application to participate in the Championship should not be successful.
A PR team really looked at this and thought it sounded logical.2)While the Andretti name carries some recognition for F1 fans, our research indicates that F1 would bring value to the Andretti brand rather than the other way around.
Yes, thank you for the PR material.Andretti, just like Haas, want to buy everything they can from Renault/Alpine, even if the chassis and aero are supposed to be made by Andretti, it doesn't sound really credible with the current factory and it's not really promising to develop and produce a formula car without an exclusive F1 factory, F1 engineers or other greater experience. Building a 12-year-old Indycar-spec chassis on which further development is allowed almost exclusively on the shock absorber (and Andretti has failed to do this in recent years, which is why there are neither Indycar titles nor Indy 500 victories) is not the right expertise to build an F1 car from scratch. But you also won't attract a substantial number of F1 people with the US location, they don't even want to go to Audi in Switzerland/Germany from the UK. What's more, Andretti hasn't done anything for ages in any of the categories in which they are currently competing, mind you, nowhere with a car they built themselves and everywhere in spec series and still 0 title ambitions anywhere.
The bottom line is that it's good for F1 that this Haas construct is failing so spectacularly and falling further and further behind. The difference between F1 and virtually all other major motorsport categories worldwide is the development, production and further development of its own F1 car every year. Here in Haas F1 you have a construct that buys all the legal parts from Ferrari, has the car built by Dallara and the aerodynamic parts are developed by Ferrari people in Haas team clothing at Ferrari in Maranello and some of them are probably even manufactured there. Andretti would be not much different in many respects. Haas doesn't have its own F1 factory, Haas doesn't build its own car, money only flows to third parties for contract work in a manufacturer racing series. This is exactly what F1 did not want with the introduction and purchase of parts some years ago. They didn't want investors who just buy everything together and don't have or develop any infrastructure. And yet at the time of Haas' entry, they had no choice but to agree to it. Fortunately, it is not running and has not attracted any other non-manufacturers.
Today it's different, "people" are interested in taking part in F1 again. Even if the bottom line is that there is currently no candidate who really wants to start from scratch with the appropriate capital and become the real 10th team and not just a sham manufacturer like Haas. Audi is again so half-baked because they only swapped Sauber/Alfa, which is certainly not what F1 had hoped for. Unfortunately, this is also a warning to other manufacturers that Audi and even more so Porsche can't do it themselves without buying in infrastructure and expertise. This should set alarm bells ringing in F1, because you won't find a manufacturer who wants to start with billions at 0 infrastructure so quickly.
The likelihood that Andretti could end up driving around just as under-budgeted as Haas is the reason why F1 is not happy to award the grid position and you didn't hear anything at all until now from Domenicali. The teams are all about the money, which they don't want to share with Andretti, that's purely selfish and capitalistic. But also F1 doesn't need another back-bench team from the USA either, which harbours the danger of dampening the US boom even further or destroying it with the Haas vs Andretti battle for the penultimate place among the constructors. In the end, it's all about money for F1, which could dry up with the Andretti risk, but above all the danger of alienating the American spectators at the track and at home on the screen.
Realistically, they would have preferred to have Audi and Porsche as independent manufacturers with new factories, infrastructure that could have been sold back to Hyundai, Toyota, Honda, etc. a few years later, even if they had left, and would have had a much better future than a Haas warehouse in England and possibly one day an F1 department at Andretti in the States or a second Andretti warehouse in England. F1 simply doesn't need that and GM's appeal is simply too small or too local. GM is rather insignificant outside North and parts of Central and South America.
3) The addition of an 11th team would place an operational burden on race promoters, would subject some of them to significant costs, and would reduce the technical, operational and commercial spaces of the other competitors.
And Gene won't do it even though Haas is clearly guilty of Reason #2: F1 would bring value to theIt’s just greed. They don’t want to share anything with an 11th team as F1 is exploding in popularity. Corporate sponsorships are flowing in and team values are skyrocketing. Willams was sold in 2021 for around $200 million, which is a bargain now.
Andretti has the best team entry F1 has seen in decades, but he’ll have to buy Haas for nearly a billion dollars now to get in.
The pinnacle of motorsports™So... you need to be bigger than F1
That 11th team on the grid could also probably beat Williams/Haas by complete accident.Meanwhile, we just helped film a movie where an 11th team is on the grid giving the idea all of this is actually possible.
And Gene won't do it even though Haas is clearly guilty of Reason #2: F1 would bring value to theAndrettiHaas brand rather than the other way around.
1)The need for any new team to take a compulsory power unit supply, potentially over a period of several seasons, would be damaging to the prestige and standing of the Championship.
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Haas is an American team and they manufacture stuff.F1 wants growth in America with 25 American GPs but won't let an American team with an American manufacturer join.