STRAIGHT TALK

MARK GALLAGHER

HOW TO SOLVE THE NEW-TEAM RANCOUR Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali cannot have been hugely thankful when FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem announced in early October that the sport’s governing body had approved Andretti Formula Racing’s entry application, thus handing the poisoned chalice to Formula 1 in order to discuss commercial terms. A toxic game of pass the parcel. As is always the case, the FIA had followed a process. These processes are always described as ‘strict’ or ‘stringent’, yet the last time the FIA followed its own path to determine the viability of new F1 teams things really didn’t work out. As the person at Cosworth responsible for supplying engines to USF1, Campos Meta, Manor Grand Prix and Lotus Racing in 2010, it soon became apparent to me that one of them…

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GP Racing UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2023

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