Formulation 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has defended the sequence’ dealing with of its refusal to permit Andretti to enter as an eleventh workforce.
It introduced final month it had rejected Andretti’s entry. F1 stated the Andretti model was not sufficiently well-known, forged doubt on their seemingly competitiveness and claimed the advantages of including an eleventh workforce had been inadequate.
Domenicali stated the topic of including an eleventh workforce “for certain is a degree associated to the Concorde Settlement” between the workforce, F1 and the FIA – which authorized Andretti’s bid in October final yr.
“It’s a level of a joint work that must be executed between the FIA and FOM in regard to the totally different sorts of analysis that we have to do,” Domenicali instructed buyers in a name at the moment.
“With regard to what has occurred, I believe that the method has been adopted, and we introduced the lead to the proper method.
“For the long run it’s a matter of dialogue, after all, with the groups, with the proper industrial and technical propositions that can be mentioned accordingly inside this yr.”
The present Concorde Settlement expires on the finish of subsequent yr. Domenicali expects the approaching negotiations between the events concerned can be easy.
“We anticipate to deal with the renewal of the Concorde Settlement with the groups very, very shortly,” he stated. “Our view, that’s mainly shared with the groups, is that mainly the Concorde Settlement is not going to want any substantial modifications this time round.
“So we’re going to start out very, very quickly. We had precedence to finalise earlier than the tip of season speaking about rules and different stuff with regard to different issues that should be solved earlier than. So now we’re getting near the time the place we’re going to start out this dialogue, very, very shortly.”
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