Helmut Marko, Red Bull F1’s motorsport adviser, has backed the prevailing view among current F1 teams about Andretti-Cadillac joining F1 in 2025. The FIA has now begun a formal process to consider expanding the grid from 10 teams to a maximum of 12 teams, but F1 itself and existing teams fear dilutive income and prestige.
McLaren chief executive Zak Brown revealed this week that the next meeting of the F1 Commission will discuss raising the entry fee for new teams from the current $200 million. Red Bull Racing F1 team boss Christian Horner says the easiest way for Andretti to end the controversy is simply to buy the existing team. “I have no grudge against Andretti and Cadillac,” Christian Horner told the Daily Mail, but allowing the 11th team to enter the F1 grid is simply a question of “who will actually pay for it?” I thought there was. “Red Bull was the Jaguar and it was Stewart Ford,” said Horner. “Mercedes went through Honda, BAR, Tyrrell, then Aston Martin, then Jordan. From Aston Martin to Jordan. It’s been a long process,” Red Bull F1 chief executive Helmut Marko added, “adding Christian’s remarks. Nothing,” he told Sport1. “Financial foundations must always be secured.” But Andretti, led by former McLaren driver Michael and supported by 1978 world champion Mario, actually tried and failed to take over Alfa Romeo Sauber in 2021. are doing. “Basically in the last few hours of negotiations we came to a control issue,” Michael Andretti explained at the time. “It ruined the deal.” Audi eventually embarked on a deal to buy Sauber, which is already 25 percent done and is said to rise to 75 percent in 2025. “None of the current teams are actually for sale,” Michael’s father Mario Andretti said this week. “Michael and his team have already explored that scenario extensively, but there is no team available for acquisition.”