F1 CEO, Stefano Domenicali stays vehemently against any new groups becoming a member of the grid.
Together with the vast majority of the groups, the previous F1 boss, has not held again on his objection to the idea of recent blood getting into the game, seemingly utilizing any excuse potential, be it logistics, security, sustainability, the purity of the game’s DNA and, after all, cash.
Certainly, whereas McLaren and Alpine are the one groups which have voiced any type of assist for the concept of a brand new entrant, the one different welcoming voice has been that of (FIA president) Mohammed ben Sulayem, who has clashed with F1 bosses on plenty of points… therefore the truth that he has basically been air-brushed out of the image.
Talking this week, because the deadline by which potential groups needed to register their curiosity handed, Domenicali doubled-down on his objection.
“I am not altering my thoughts,” he advised Motorsport.com. “It is not the cash, as we now have mentioned, and I do not need to anticipate something as a result of there’s a course of and I believe that I’ve respect for the very fact the FIA launched their course of, and really quickly we’ll arrive on the conclusion.
“As we at all times mentioned, we have to be sure that the choice is correct for the enterprise,” he added. “And that is what I believe is the responsibility of the FIA and us collectively, that must be taken. So that’s one other choice that will probably be taken within the subsequent couple of months.”
It is understood that there are 5 potential groups seeking to enter the game – Andretti, Carlin, Hitech, Components Equal and LKY SUNZ – Andretti, in a bid to provide extra weight and status to its bid, having introduced a partnership with Basic Motors model Cadillac.
Requested if he see positives to the Andretti bid, Domenicali admitted: “There are positives and negatives, that is a part of the analysis that we’re doing. So I can’t spoil or anticipate something.
“We’re doing issues very significantly and accurately. In order quickly as we will probably be prepared for that dialogue we’ll inform, as a dialogue we’ll take it with the FIA collectively.”
