Why Andretti is not waiting for a green light to build its F1 team
Andretti believes the best way to prove it will be a strong addition to the F1 grid is to get on with preparations at full speed.
This article includes first wind tunnel and sim photos from Andretti, as well as details on how their hiring and work on the car is going
I really hope they get in. F1 needs a good injection of unpredictability. However, it would be hilarious for them to have built a complete car and F1 says no.
Pretty sure Formula 1 would be a defendant in an anti-trust if they said no. I'm not an attorney, but I remember reading an article about Formula 1 setting themselves up to be sued.
Well, apparently They decided not to let them in Not as funny as I thought. We need a new team
They have approval from the FIA though right, so I think they could enter.... but wouldn't get paid.
Thats an unlikely situation, but would be hilarious, as FOM wouldn't have permission to show them on TV either...
It's one way of forcing an entry though!
(Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about)
Curiously, the picture that Andretti have provided of that model in the wind tunnel.. looks very close to how the RB car looked at the end of last season.
If you were building your first car wouldn't you copy a dominant Newey beast?
I guess this could be a pricey gamble if they don’t get the go ahead. But, if they do, it means they will have been working on this car for way longer than any of the other teams! It probably has a decent chance to be competitive.
So how does this work with budgets, wind tunnel time, and regulations? Does the FIA send people ahead of entry to monitor things?
I suspect it's like boxers and mma fighters that they are not bound to any rules or doping testing when they are "retired". They get juiced up wait a few months until they test clean and unretire.
Once they are an F1 team is when they start being bound to F1 rules.
What are the chances one of the existing teams folds in the next year or two?
Never say never, but there's virtually no chance of that happening.
I mean, who are the likely suspects? All the teams now have large corporate backing. Haas and Alpine are the only two even remotely close to being in the realm of possibility (IMO). And I very much doubt either would leave at this point.