FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has taken aim at F1 and the existing 10 teams amid his desire to let Andretti enter the sport.
Governing body the FIA has already given Andretti’s bid to become F1’s 11th team its blessing, but the matter has now been passed on to FOM for final approval.
F1 and the existing teams’ current stance on the prospect of Andretti joining the grid has been lukewarm at best."The FIA should be asking, begging, OEMs to come in. We should not just say no to them. "If you say: 'What is my dream?' It is to fill up the 12 and to have one US team from an OEM and a and a driver from there. And then go to China maybe and ask for the same thing and do it.”Ben Sulayem rejected suggestions that it would be better for Andretti-Cadillac to buy an existing team, something Mercedes boss Toto Wolff had previously said."I won't mention names, but they were after me to go on and convince GM to do that. It's not my job.
"My intention was never to embarrass or to put someone in a corner, Liberty or FOM . I am here for the spirit of the sport."
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