Aston Martin boss Lawrence Stroll has questioned why System One would let Andretti be a part of as an eleventh staff, saying “if it ain’t broke, do not repair it”.
This week the governing FIA gave its approval for an Andretti-Cadillac bid to affix F1 in 2025 or 2026, pending approval from the game’s industrial rights holder, Liberty Media.
Liberty is unlikely to just accept Andretti with out unanimous approval from all of the sports activities shareholders, which incorporates the ten present groups.
Numerous F1 groups have beforehand made it recognized they’re against permitting one other staff to enter when they’re having fun with an elevated share of the earnings within the sport’s booming interval.
Stroll seems to be unchanged in his stance.
“I feel F1 in the mean time, the enterprise is on hearth, the game has by no means been in a greater place, and I consider if it ain’t broke you need not repair it, so I am a powerful believer that it is working very well with 10 groups proper now and consider that is the way in which it ought to keep,” Stroll instructed Sky Sports activities.
Michael Andretti, proprietor of the staff which shares his title, known as F1’s groups “grasping” earlier this yr when requested in regards to the lukewarm response to his preliminary expression of curiosity.
A lot has been fabricated from F1’s development in America over the previous few seasons, however Stroll urged that surge would proceed with out a new U.S. entity becoming a member of the championship.
“As I stated the game and the enterprise is on hearth,” he stated. “There’s by no means been extra followers or spectators, the viewers is the best it has ever been. I proceed to see substantial development, significantly in the USA which is the biggest shopper market on the earth.
“As you understand we now have three races within the States – we’re in our second yr in Miami, we’ll Las Vegas in November, so I see super development prospects going ahead.”