F1 teams and bosses should encourage, not object to, the arrival of new squads like Andretti, says the FIA president.
Amid a developing political battle over the plans by Andretti Global to enter F1 with the General Motors-backed Cadillac name, Sulayem has been a lone voice so far in publicly supporting the team's ambitions.
While teams have no formal say in the approval of a new entry on the grid, it is highly unlikely that FOM, which does get to decide in cooperation with the FIA, would back the plans if there was widespread resistance from the current competitors. "If you want to sustain the sport, you have to open it to the rest of the manufacturers. And to us, we are allowed to have 12 teams on the grid."To have a big company like GM, which is one of the top five in the world, we should be encouraging them to come to Formula 1. That is the way I would like to see the future: having an OEM in with sustainability."Alfa Romeo
"Every single partner there [in F1], or stakeholder there, should be welcoming an OEM, especially from America. You have three races there [in the United States], and we don't have maybe a racer, a driver, and for sure we don't have an OEM.
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