Zynerji wrote: ↑31 Jan 2024, 19:48
Best play from here is to start booking tracks for a new spec series, and take their current r&d car and get rid of the F1 nonsense.
See if a parallel series starts to draw from F1 by just having better cars and racing.
Go for it!
I am also in favour of Andretti Global starting a breakaway Grand Prix series.
"Bridgestone Presents the Grand Prix World Series Powered by Cadillac"?
With such iconic venues as Sepang, Magny Cours, Hockenheim, Surfers Paradise or Adelaide etc.
It's funny to see the hoopla around Andretti being rejected by FOM, compared to the relative lack of fuss about Bridgestone being rejected by FOM despite offering to pay more than Pirelli!
Did anyone say 18,000rpm 3.5L V12 engines running on technically carbon-neutral synthetic fuel?
cplchanb wrote: ↑31 Jan 2024, 21:07
they dont want a new boy to the old boys club period
Of course. But as always, Andretti
could have purchased Hispania Racing, Manor Racing or Caterham F1 many years ago. Formula One Management and the FIA did admit three new teams in 2010, after all, those teams were around for a while and were
available for purchase when they became insolvent due to prize money only being padi to top 10 WCC,
IF it is really about Andretti Global's desire to build and race Grand Prix cars, and not about their desire to access the high commercial profile of Formula One, then Andretti should have no hesitation in starting their own Grand Prix series. There is nothing that says the FIA World Championship should be the only major Grand Prix series.
After all, despite the World Driver's Championship being the "benchmark" it is not even technically the same championship as the fabled AIACR European Grand Prix Championship. It just has the same events like the Italian Grand Prix, Monaco Grand Prix
etc.