The US team’s wish to enter the series alongside General Motors anඣd Cadillac has been granted b🐟y the FIA but now rests in the hands of the Formula One Management (FOM), which includes the current 10 teams.

﷽Many existing team bosses have been vocal in questioning the sense of Andretti j🍌oining.

“Let’s ask o🎶urselves a question,” Ben൲ Sulayem said to . 

“Why do Michael Andretti and [G𒁃eneral Motors] need the teams’ support? I don’t understand.&nbs🎀p;

“Do they have any say in the admission?”

Asked if feedback from the current 10 F1 teams is theref♏ore “irrelevant”, Ben Sulayem replܫied: “To this, yes.

“In the sport, they are an element, and everybody has the right to express their fee♕ling toward it, but how can you refuse GM? 

“I don’t understand. Just why?

“The FIA has the right on t💧he sporting side; FOM has the money side, but will FOM refuse? 

“We are talking a♊bout the biggest manufacturer in the United States working with one of the bi🧜ggest companies, Liberty Media, and if they don’t see it…

“If we’re talking ab✱out business, this is good for business.”

The c🐼urrent Con📖corde Agreement has a provision to allow up to 12 teams onto the grid.

A major talking point regarding Andretti’s wish to join is how the revenue would be split. Existing teams have voiced concerns that their share would be diluted by the addition 𝔉of an extr𓂃a team.

“What I’ve h🗹eard from the legal side is that they can say no to the financial,” Ben🐬 Sulayem said.

“But the licence belongs to the FIA, so they would 🐈be running, but without getting a⛄ny money, and I don’t think that would happen.

“For me, I am optimistic [t♎he FOM] will not say no, but anything can happen. 

“I just hope they don’t say no because it is🌟 so good for business, so good to sustain motorsport.”