F1 : Team run by passionate racing family with strong opinions of their own ... "No way" F1 : Team run by billionaire business man with no sporting background and money to burn that they can leech off of ... "Yes, of course, welcome on in."
A traditional family of motorsports thinking can outsource a lot of development like Haas is showing it doesn't work for a series all about technology. No way. A rich sets up a fund to buy out a working team that regularly challenged for high points from a guy going bankrupt before the team ended up owned by a bank and removed from the championship. Yeah, let's see how it goes. Off course hindsight can be a curse. All of Stroll's extra money made the team loose efficiency and most of his hirings broke the internal balance of concepts. They went from using parts from Mercedes and RedBull and doing well when both failed to just developing everything badly on their own 😢
Slight correction, but if the team has Gainbridge as a title sponsor then the car would be Yellow. The pink in Andretti's car comes form Autonation, a separate sponsor
@@LawVS Makes sense. As they're not currently an F1 team, they're not constrained by the cost cap, so they can go full bore on spending and design until they're officially informed that the cost cap will affect them. Which is another interesting logistical question: When/if they join, where do F1/FIA put Andretti's cost cap/wind tunnel/CFD numbers? (And they'll have to re-orient the breakdowns of the scale of those numbers now with 11 teams)
I live in North Carolina and I've been seeing a lot of Chevrolet F1 engineering jobs and internships open in Charlotte on some places similar to LinkedIn. Not nearly as many as teams like McLaren and thier offers in England but plenty still.
I can remember when F1 was fretting over keeping 24 cars on the grid, 22 cars on the grid, then 20. Teams were worried about the shrinking grid and it seemed that over time twenty cars was somehow ideal. F1 support has certainly risen globally. How about 12 teams? Also, interesting you mentioned Chevrolet and or Cadillac examining Renault's power unit site. Could be an easy deal, all names being French.
More cars do not make the sport better. And the support has nothing on the numbers of cars... its like saying that football is so big now that we should double the players. 10 teams works and why add or remove any. If you put 24-26 cars on the grid then qualy will be a nightmare and frontrunners will just have to make it past more backmarkers.
@@egj1975 If/when the number of cars on track REALLY starts hurting qualification, maybe the qualification format just needs to be changed... Or maybe there actually IS a limit on the number of cars. Or maybe (input whatever you want here)... We won't know until we try.
14:20 “Team 10-01” for the eleventh team would be a troll of a lifetime. Especially if they stylize it with white letters and the 00’s being light gray.
As Aidan Milward mentioned, it _was_ the era of Concord. So it’d be akin to a multi hour commute. But the attitude probably wasn’t there. Granted, relocating a family because of a job can lead to marital strain, just ask Adrian Newey.
I read the article last night, and considering it didn't point to any specific evidence from Andretti or the FIA I couldn't find myself trusting it. The whole thing read more as speculation and vibes rather than having solid information. Not to say it will or won't happen, just that the article didn't convince me.
I have been saying this all along, americans who do not care about motorsports will stop and pay attention when they hear Andretti, if F1 wants the fans they have to let them in. Majority of Americans have no idea who HAAS is.
I don't want young drivers, I want veterans. I want high speed aggression, tenacious fighting for position, faster overtakes, slower overtakes, less crashes, less hoping for a boy to become a man- more seeing men be gentlemen or villains.
The Andretti name can remain without any Andrettis in the picture, just the same as Mclaren and Williams. The brand value is in the name, and Dan Towriss doesn't strike me as being daft enough to throw that away.
Honestly their formula e livery but with one of the colours swapped for yellow and gainbridge logos would probably look great given how beautiful the FE livery is.
well, some details regarding that , Biden gave Ukraine permission to strike russia, within a few days Ukraine struck inside russia 15-20 times , so as a warning russia fired 6 of their R 26 icbm , which can each a total payload of 1 megatons and carries 4 independently targetable warheads, meaning each warhead is equal to 0.25 megatons, both nuclear and conventional , the russians purposefully used unloaded dud warheads and targeted the city of dnipro , the missiles were launched from the Russian region bordering the north western border of Kazakhstan and reached dnipro within 5 mins, bypassing western defences like the patriot
I'm pretty much joking here, but it seems like F1/Liberty Media really don't want the President-Elect to start sniffing around this drama lol. I guess you could also call it an off the wall theory about the abrupt changes in tone lol.
I play the EA F1 game sometimes... a lot of the time... and I'm wondering how much more work they will have to put into the game if another team gets added because they basically only had to copy, paste, and slightly refine from F1 23 to F1 24. Logan Sargeant is still driving for Williams in the game because Colapinto doesn't have a model lol. And Yuki Tsunoda is way too tall in the game... all the characters are the same height.
Should be easy enough, it's not like they have to change any of the physics models or anything. They make the game off a best guess of what aero is anyways, so just update the engine sounds and schemes and off you go
As an American, the 2021 Abu Dhabi GP made me lose trust in F1. However, when they (and Liberty) rejected Andretti, I stopped watching entirely. I *will* watch again if Andretti gets accepted.
If I were to guess, Colton Herta would get one of those seats. I'm pretty sure he has the super license points now after being runner-up in Indy car this year.
If this happens and Hauger does really well in Indy Nxt and maybe even a year in Indycar i certainly hope he gets to be a driver. But that's only a dream
@jimthefly since posting that my thoughts have gone towards Palou, O’Ward, or Kirkwood for the young bloods OR (which sounds particularly spicy to me) if they wanted to go with an familiar experienced driver to help build the team McLaughlin, Rossi, or even imagine Will Power on the grid?! I know the old head idea is probably stupid and will more than likely result in a background role for testing and the like but at this point any eyes on IndyCar talent is better than nothing!
Im happy we're getting an 11th team. My main reason for wanting this was two extra spots for all these up and coming drivers who have no were to go while we have to watch billionaire spawn like Stroll and Sargent make a mockery out of what a professional athlete is supposed to be. It will also help all the engineers and F1 workers who lost jobs when the cost cap went into effect, which is a great thing. I was probably one of the loudest internet troll critics of FOM for blackballing Andretti and continuously moving the goalposts as they took the feedback they got and improved their bid. I even started a boycott campaign that went nowhere unfortunately. But, the fact that FOM forced Michael Andretti out of the team he built over 20 years REALLY pisses me off. We need people like Michael in F1. His passion for racing and his vision of Andretti F1 is being replaced with another Wall Street billionaire who knows nothing about putting together a successful racing operation. Cudos, to Michael for stepping aside to make this happen but shame on F1 for blackballing the Andretti's for god knows what reason? Cause he showed up to a GP with a clipboard and a petition? So petty, so typical of the xenophobic F1 industrial complex. I hope Michael installs himself as the team principal or CEO as soon as the inks dry on the contracts and struts into the Paddock in 2026 with two middle fingers raised and a big smile on his face!
I always felt that Michael's desire to enter F1 as an owner was to make amends for his actions as a driver. Let's hope Andretti brings a competitive team to the grid and makes F1 better.
@@guneytopal1713 Andretti plans on running F2 and F3 teams instead of just F1 for the money. They've built facilities and hired a lot of personnel to run and build the team. How does this equate to being a fake F1 guy whatever that means. I don't understand the hate towards Andretti other than what he did as a driver and it appears he's trying to make amends for that.
GM is what will bring more money to F1 and shut up these Team Managers. If GM is supplying the engines then the American public will tune in to watch even more.
Bainbridge / Cadillac. Andretti behind the organisation. Andretti & Zac Brown are in Supercars together so there’s history there. Andretti / Cadillac, buy the Renault engine factory and get a head start. Not the best engine but better than starting from scratch.
No way, it's much better to be clean sheet than to buy a failed existing F1 engine supplier. GM races their own-powered engines in Europe already, and there is minimal benefit and much baggage that comes with buying the French factory and staff.
Wouldn’t Andretti / GM joining F1 get more eyeballs on the sport aka more money? What’s all the fuss about? Seems like majority of the fans want an 11th team too.
People say it's about prize money, but i think it's about TEAM VALUATION. Teams are worth more everyday, they are going up so fast there must be an economic bubble building. Adding 1 or 2 more teams would risk popping that bubble.
Crazy. As of '26 we will have; Ferrari, Mercedes, McLaren and Audi as works teams. Red Bull bringing in Ford onto their engine project, Aston Martin and Honda partnering, Toyota returning to aid Haas, and possibly GM entering as a works team. And also rumours of Porsche and Williams partnering.. RB and Alpine effectively being the only non backed teams (yes Alpine is owned wnd run by Renault but... Its not likely to last)
When I was a kid in the 60's, I always thought F1 represented the pinnacle of wheel-to-wheel racing with all the countries sending their best automotive offerings to race on the worlds stage. This seems to be a step in the right direction. The other form of motorsport I enjoy is WRC. It offers relatable vehicles on relatable roads in many countries with a broader range of countries entering their best cars. At least F1 has much tighter competition than in the past. These days, you really aren't sure who will be on the podium.
I hope this happens for Andretti 😎 and hopefully GM buy the IP rights for the Renault engines or even the French plant where the Renault engines are made
All they have to do is agree to the entry terms even if that means not having the Andrretti name. Then once they are in the sport, have Andretti Global sponsor the team so they have to use that name.
14 different Chevrolet pickups and cars for me😂 my Daily driver is a 2006 Tahoe with 330,000 miles on the odometer! My entire family has bought Chevy cars and pickups from the same dealership for the past 60 years. I am SOOOO happy to hear Cadillac/General Motors will be in. I bet you this team will want to snag driver with lots of experience to help build the team. Maybe they can get Checo's career extended and benefit from his sponsorship support.
Luv to see 22 cars on the Grid (Although Qualifying would have to change for safety sake) BUT. It is going to come down to money. Alternatively Williams --which is owned by a Wall Street Hedge-fund might sell and take a quick profit -- they bought the team cheap during Covid.
Do you think they will need to supply another team with power units in 2028. Alpine, Williams and McLaren could be interested. With Audi as well we could end up with only one customer team for each engine supplier to end the Mercedes dominance.
People thinking Andretti would just drop it don't understand American culture, in particular Italian-American culture. We don't take kindly to being told to take our ball and go home. Just look at what happened when Latin America told us to gtfo.
LawVS, I don’t care about the politics (FOM/GM/Andretti do whatever cost/benefit offsetting and/or courting ritual you want), but having an American engine manufacturer combined with an American established racing brand like Andretti will be worth whatever headaches/mea culpa’s in the present to expand the competition a bit, insert some new variances in the F1 community, and strategically grow your brands (currently established teams [including HAAS] will also eventually benefit I am willing to bet). One example, you have more talent than seats currently and 2 more seats (with associated reserve driver seats) will help with those limitations and the engineering talent will get expanded as well. America will not be taking over F1 (NASCAR and Indy will endure here) and the European history of F1 will always be prominent (FOM keep the European iconic tracks please, it’s a heritage thing). Finally, eventually the MONEY component WILL CATCH-UP, but sometimes you have to invest/bet big to win big.
I just read that ultimately, Andretti derives from the Greek word Andres meaning "manly and by extension, warrior". So Warrior F1? I thiink it sounds good!
Its probably never going to happen, but I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that Lamborghini comes in as a 12th team, I'M NOT LOSING ANY SLEEP OVER IT, I'm just hoping real hard😊.
I am interested in the american aspect of f1 going forward, i just hope we DO NOT get any more USA based GPs, give us one in africa, bring more south american ones back, give us exciting tracks
Haas was asked to join when the class of 2011 went bankrupt in 2014-2016 due to the lack of a promised bugetcap. Haas said yes and I can't imagine Andretti wasn't asked at that time. Andretti showed interest only when the costcap was insrated and functional. Due to Andretti's tone internationally FOM,was seen as the villain. Now Renault is pulling out and FOM are desperate to spread the risks with PU manufacturers. So Cadillac is welcome now without the Andretti name.
I am so hyped by this possibility, because if they are actually able to build a competitive car given the lack of restrictions at the moment, it could make for some very chaotic and exciting seasons, changing the grid order a little bit. At this point my question would be though: who do you think they’d choose as drivers? Experienced line up, like Riccardo and Bottas or someone from the active grid for example, a rookie pair, a mix, or a full American pair from another motorsport series? ‘Cause I feel like if you want security and a bit of more assured success, you’d go for experience, but we’ve seen it doesn’t always translate…
I am really concerned by the prospect of GM owning and managing the team. US-Based private equity isn’t exactly known for their skills at managing the companies under their control, but rather their ability to gut them out and run a skeleton crew in the name of profits.
GM always let their partners to handle the racing side of things. Example: Corvettes are usually run by Pratt & Miller, while their Cadillac WEC programme is handled by Ganassi.
I don’t really like GM or Cadillac, so I was hoping against the odds that they’d use Corvette branding in F1. That doesn’t really make sense given the investment needed. GM has been trying to alter people’s perception of Cadillac for decades as the average age of customers was literally in the retirement zone. Maybe it’s already working as I did go to their website to check out the cars and the 2025 models look more appealing than I imagined they would look. It doesn’t scream “cheapskate, rip-off, old GM brand manufacturer” like many of the 2024 and earlier models. They’re still not fantastic from what I can tell, and probably are not worth the price compared to the competition, but it’s a step forward for them in my opinion. I think the only Cadillac car I ever got excited for was the XLR way back when I had just started high school.
About bloody time! (if it's really happening...) Still having to -bribe- buy their way in to the club really stinks. But who ever said business had anything good to do with morals? An idea Andretti and GM - while you're not in the club and subject to their rules test and develop like crazy, it will serve them right!
Andretti. Great! Need a 12th team as well. Vi-tech? Red Bull to sell VCARB to Prema with Ford or Ferrari engines and keep the driver academy? BMW to Williams? Toyota to take over HAAS? Big changes coming. Hyundai. Get rid of the politics!!!
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I bet GM enters as their own team, Andretti becomes their title sponsor for 2026/2027 then Andretti buys a 30%-50% stake in the team itself in 2028.
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F1 : Team run by passionate racing family with strong opinions of their own ... "No way"
F1 : Team run by billionaire business man with no sporting background and money to burn that they can leech off of ... "Yes, of course, welcome on in."
Thank You!! 👏👏👏👏👏
Hope for the FIA and F1 Max doesn't join them. 🙂
A traditional family of motorsports thinking can outsource a lot of development like Haas is showing it doesn't work for a series all about technology. No way.
A rich sets up a fund to buy out a working team that regularly challenged for high points from a guy going bankrupt before the team ended up owned by a bank and removed from the championship. Yeah, let's see how it goes.
Off course hindsight can be a curse. All of Stroll's extra money made the team loose efficiency and most of his hirings broke the internal balance of concepts.
They went from using parts from Mercedes and RedBull and doing well when both failed to just developing everything badly on their own 😢
the FIA will always bend the rules for their billionaire friends. Andretti is being cucked
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Since Andretti isn’t a team yet, they should do a few 1,000 hours of testing on the 2026 car.
I JUMPED WHEN I READ THAT TITLE WTHHHHHHHH
Why? This was always going to happen
@@davelangford2439yes, but I think a lot of us figured it’ll happen during the winter of next year.
Slight correction, but if the team has Gainbridge as a title sponsor then the car would be Yellow. The pink in Andretti's car comes form Autonation, a separate sponsor
I would love the Cadillac Andretti's F1 car to have the colors of the full Cadillac logo, Red White Blue, Black and Yellow
As a American who is a GM fan( own a Chevy truck and Cadillac car ) I’m super pumped
Damn it Hank, you wrecked my Cadillac car!
Cotton, is that you?
@@ChrisBl33p god dammit Bobby lol. Idk if Cotton could reach the pedals on the CTS-V lol
I so happy we get a American team in this spot
14 different Chevrolet pickups and cars for me😂
I really hope that when they get to F1 they are competitive.
I feel like they could be since up until now they've had no restrictions seemingly on cost cap or development time on 2026.
@@LawVS Makes sense. As they're not currently an F1 team, they're not constrained by the cost cap, so they can go full bore on spending and design until they're officially informed that the cost cap will affect them.
Which is another interesting logistical question: When/if they join, where do F1/FIA put Andretti's cost cap/wind tunnel/CFD numbers? (And they'll have to re-orient the breakdowns of the scale of those numbers now with 11 teams)
Unrestricted spending for either a 26 or 28 start. They could be VERY interesting depending on the driver lineup
Would be the first team to do this. I highly doubt it
@@markuss4133
Brawn GP?
I live in North Carolina and I've been seeing a lot of Chevrolet F1 engineering jobs and internships open in Charlotte on some places similar to LinkedIn. Not nearly as many as teams like McLaren and thier offers in England but plenty still.
I can remember when F1 was fretting over keeping 24 cars on the grid, 22 cars on the grid, then 20. Teams were worried about the shrinking grid and it seemed that over time twenty cars was somehow ideal. F1 support has certainly risen globally. How about 12 teams? Also, interesting you mentioned Chevrolet and or Cadillac examining Renault's power unit site. Could be an easy deal, all names being French.
More cars do not make the sport better. And the support has nothing on the numbers of cars... its like saying that football is so big now that we should double the players. 10 teams works and why add or remove any. If you put 24-26 cars on the grid then qualy will be a nightmare and frontrunners will just have to make it past more backmarkers.
@egj1975 All this is happening with 20 cars. Bringing in manufacturers with their own power units over teams without them is good marketing
@@egj1975 If/when the number of cars on track REALLY starts hurting qualification, maybe the qualification format just needs to be changed... Or maybe there actually IS a limit on the number of cars. Or maybe (input whatever you want here)... We won't know until we try.
The "At what cost?" in the thumbnail is making me fear a monkey's paw situation...
it’s about danm time for a historic name team to join 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
We do have some at the moment.... they are called Ferrari, Williams, Mercedes... etc.
@egj1975 i think they're taking shots at haas and Stake teams with no real heritage
14:20 “Team 10-01” for the eleventh team would be a troll of a lifetime. Especially if they stylize it with white letters and the 00’s being light gray.
11th team would be soooo good rn with the amount of rookies that show potential and need a seat!!
Finally 11 teams on the grid again! I can't wait if it does happen!
As Aidan Milward mentioned, it _was_ the era of Concord. So it’d be akin to a multi hour commute. But the attitude probably wasn’t there. Granted, relocating a family because of a job can lead to marital strain, just ask Adrian Newey.
Cadillac have an ace up their sleeve as Pat Symonds is the technical director fresh off the FIA...
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I read the article last night, and considering it didn't point to any specific evidence from Andretti or the FIA I couldn't find myself trusting it. The whole thing read more as speculation and vibes rather than having solid information. Not to say it will or won't happen, just that the article didn't convince me.
That holden logo on the GM slide was heartbreaking
I just wanna see them do a “car reveal” when the teams do their reveals coming season and take a good PR run with that.
I have been saying this all along, americans who do not care about motorsports will stop and pay attention when they hear Andretti, if F1 wants the fans they have to let them in. Majority of Americans have no idea who HAAS is.
I would be incredibly happy to see an 11th team on the grid.
Another 21 minutes of the best RUclipsr talking about the best sport… YES PLEASE
why the hell did I read that as android 21??? 😭😭😭😭🥷
All i care about is , 2 more seats , 2 more chances for young drivers to show their talents
I don't want young drivers, I want veterans. I want high speed aggression, tenacious fighting for position, faster overtakes, slower overtakes, less crashes, less hoping for a boy to become a man- more seeing men be gentlemen or villains.
The Andretti name can remain without any Andrettis in the picture, just the same as Mclaren and Williams.
The brand value is in the name, and Dan Towriss doesn't strike me as being daft enough to throw that away.
If Andretti does come in, I hope they try a mix up of their Indy and Formula E liveries
Honestly their formula e livery but with one of the colours swapped for yellow and gainbridge logos would probably look great given how beautiful the FE livery is.
Imo It should be a primarily GM livery with Andretti sprinkled in..something clean and classy looking but still stands out on the track.
There’s definitely going to be some Cadillac in the livery
I was reading recent news related to Putin (Russian Media) claiming that their new missile could reach UK in 19 minutes, I skipped that to see this.
well, some details regarding that , Biden gave Ukraine permission to strike russia, within a few days Ukraine struck inside russia 15-20 times , so as a warning russia fired 6 of their R 26 icbm , which can each a total payload of 1 megatons and carries 4 independently targetable warheads, meaning each warhead is equal to 0.25 megatons, both nuclear and conventional , the russians purposefully used unloaded dud warheads and targeted the city of dnipro , the missiles were launched from the Russian region bordering the north western border of Kazakhstan and reached dnipro within 5 mins, bypassing western defences like the patriot
just the basic details
I'm pretty much joking here, but it seems like F1/Liberty Media really don't want the President-Elect to start sniffing around this drama lol. I guess you could also call it an off the wall theory about the abrupt changes in tone lol.
I'll believe it when I see it 🏎
I play the EA F1 game sometimes... a lot of the time... and I'm wondering how much more work they will have to put into the game if another team gets added because they basically only had to copy, paste, and slightly refine from F1 23 to F1 24. Logan Sargeant is still driving for Williams in the game because Colapinto doesn't have a model lol. And Yuki Tsunoda is way too tall in the game... all the characters are the same height.
Oh no poor EA
Should be easy enough, it's not like they have to change any of the physics models or anything. They make the game off a best guess of what aero is anyways, so just update the engine sounds and schemes and off you go
As an American, the 2021 Abu Dhabi GP made me lose trust in F1. However, when they (and Liberty) rejected Andretti, I stopped watching entirely. I *will* watch again if Andretti gets accepted.
If I were to guess, Colton Herta would get one of those seats. I'm pretty sure he has the super license points now after being runner-up in Indy car this year.
If this happens and Hauger does really well in Indy Nxt and maybe even a year in Indycar i certainly hope he gets to be a driver. But that's only a dream
Colton Herta is most likely as the #2 driver if he can get to 40 F1 points. After finishing 2nd this year he's up to 35.
If the team is not called Andretti, American fans will be very disappointed.
My guess is Andretti will still run things behind the scenes and eventually take control again later
hope they do join f1 needs more teams
Congrats Andretti! Looking forward to it!
Congrats to what? Nothing is official
Gainbridge?! Colton Herta in an FP1 would be INSANE! Also may finally TRULY give some insane IndyCar talent the tap!
I really think that Andretti F1 Team would definitely move to make at least one of their first drivers an American, probably someone like Herta.
@jimthefly since posting that my thoughts have gone towards Palou, O’Ward, or Kirkwood for the young bloods OR (which sounds particularly spicy to me) if they wanted to go with an familiar experienced driver to help build the team McLaughlin, Rossi, or even imagine Will Power on the grid?! I know the old head idea is probably stupid and will more than likely result in a background role for testing and the like but at this point any eyes on IndyCar talent is better than nothing!
@@awesomesideofnerdpower herta in an andretti f1. Gg
I could see either herta or crawford
@ crawford is a GREAT shout
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I don't know when they filmed it but the interview with Otmar with the High Performance channel alluded to this as well.
FOM had a personal vendetta agaisnt Michael Andretti 💀
They would still need an engine to test that chassis
The livery should be a stylized middle finger. F1 is so much about petty personal grievances
😂
Im happy we're getting an 11th team. My main reason for wanting this was two extra spots for all these up and coming drivers who have no were to go while we have to watch billionaire spawn like Stroll and Sargent make a mockery out of what a professional athlete is supposed to be. It will also help all the engineers and F1 workers who lost jobs when the cost cap went into effect, which is a great thing.
I was probably one of the loudest internet troll critics of FOM for blackballing Andretti and continuously moving the goalposts as they took the feedback they got and improved their bid. I even started a boycott campaign that went nowhere unfortunately.
But, the fact that FOM forced Michael Andretti out of the team he built over 20 years REALLY pisses me off. We need people like Michael in F1. His passion for racing and his vision of Andretti F1 is being replaced with another Wall Street billionaire who knows nothing about putting together a successful racing operation. Cudos, to Michael for stepping aside to make this happen but shame on F1 for blackballing the Andretti's for god knows what reason? Cause he showed up to a GP with a clipboard and a petition? So petty, so typical of the xenophobic F1 industrial complex. I hope Michael installs himself as the team principal or CEO as soon as the inks dry on the contracts and struts into the Paddock in 2026 with two middle fingers raised and a big smile on his face!
I always felt that Michael's desire to enter F1 as an owner was to make amends for his actions as a driver. Let's hope Andretti brings a competitive team to the grid and makes F1 better.
No thanks, don’t mind Mario or any other Andretti. We don’t need another fake F1 guy in the sport
@@guneytopal1713 could you clarify who and what you mean by a 'fake F1 guy'?
@@guneytopal1713 Andretti plans on running F2 and F3 teams instead of just F1 for the money. They've built facilities and hired a lot of personnel to run and build the team. How does this equate to being a fake F1 guy whatever that means. I don't understand the hate towards Andretti other than what he did as a driver and it appears he's trying to make amends for that.
GM is what will bring more money to F1 and shut up these Team Managers. If GM is supplying the engines then the American public will tune in to watch even more.
ARE WE SERIOUS, IF THIS IS SERIOUS. I WILL BE A HAPPY US FAN
Bainbridge / Cadillac. Andretti behind the organisation. Andretti & Zac Brown are in Supercars together so there’s history there. Andretti / Cadillac, buy the Renault engine factory and get a head start. Not the best engine but better than starting from scratch.
Didn't they already work on engines for years by now themselves?
Not as easy as clicking "Buy". It costs billions and Renault is still using Viry for their other racing categories.
No way, it's much better to be clean sheet than to buy a failed existing F1 engine supplier. GM races their own-powered engines in Europe already, and there is minimal benefit and much baggage that comes with buying the French factory and staff.
If I was Felipe Drugovich, I’d be calling Andretti RIGHT NOW
Wouldn’t Andretti / GM joining F1 get more eyeballs on the sport aka more money? What’s all the fuss about? Seems like majority of the fans want an 11th team too.
People say it's about prize money, but i think it's about TEAM VALUATION. Teams are worth more everyday, they are going up so fast there must be an economic bubble building. Adding 1 or 2 more teams would risk popping that bubble.
Crazy. As of '26 we will have;
Ferrari, Mercedes, McLaren and Audi as works teams.
Red Bull bringing in Ford onto their engine project, Aston Martin and Honda partnering, Toyota returning to aid Haas, and possibly GM entering as a works team.
And also rumours of Porsche and Williams partnering..
RB and Alpine effectively being the only non backed teams (yes Alpine is owned wnd run by Renault but... Its not likely to last)
Glad you got to the bottom of this hate for andretti. Great show. No one else is going so deep.
This could be APXGP's time to actually become a team LMAO
When I was a kid in the 60's, I always thought F1 represented the pinnacle of wheel-to-wheel racing with all the countries sending their best automotive offerings to race on the worlds stage. This seems to be a step in the right direction.
The other form of motorsport I enjoy is WRC. It offers relatable vehicles on relatable roads in many countries with a broader range of countries entering their best cars.
At least F1 has much tighter competition than in the past. These days, you really aren't sure who will be on the podium.
Maybe Mr Penske will go back to F1 again as the 12th team
I hope this happens for Andretti 😎 and hopefully GM buy the IP rights for the Renault engines or even the French plant where the Renault engines are made
Isn't it were made? Or are they actually still in production? Lol
All they have to do is agree to the entry terms even if that means not having the Andrretti name.
Then once they are in the sport, have Andretti Global sponsor the team so they have to use that name.
So happy at this !
14 different Chevrolet pickups and cars for me😂 my Daily driver is a 2006 Tahoe with 330,000 miles on the odometer! My entire family has bought Chevy cars and pickups from the same dealership for the past 60 years. I am SOOOO happy to hear Cadillac/General Motors will be in. I bet you this team will want to snag driver with lots of experience to help build the team. Maybe they can get Checo's career extended and benefit from his sponsorship support.
Do you know which over groups are interested in the 12th team ?
If allowed !
Michael is the face of Andretti.
Mario.
Luv to see 22 cars on the Grid (Although Qualifying would have to change for safety sake) BUT. It is going to come down to money. Alternatively Williams --which is owned by a Wall Street Hedge-fund might sell and take a quick profit -- they bought the team cheap during Covid.
Thanks.
Herta and O'ward in f1 lets make it happen. INDYCAR would hate that though.... Taking two of arguably their most popular young drivers
Who will be the other driver alongside colton herta
I love being early to the ladder
Do you think they will need to supply another team with power units in 2028. Alpine, Williams and McLaren could be interested. With Audi as well we could end up with only one customer team for each engine supplier to end the Mercedes dominance.
People thinking Andretti would just drop it don't understand American culture, in particular Italian-American culture. We don't take kindly to being told to take our ball and go home. Just look at what happened when Latin America told us to gtfo.
Will Otmar Szefnauer be team principal?
That would be a great choice.
Who should you choose for the seats ? , I,ll go for K-Mag (who already drove for Cadillac in Imsa ), and a young talent
Colapinto
Nice! So the rumors were right!
LawVS, I don’t care about the politics (FOM/GM/Andretti do whatever cost/benefit offsetting and/or courting ritual you want), but having an American engine manufacturer combined with an American established racing brand like Andretti will be worth whatever headaches/mea culpa’s in the present to expand the competition a bit, insert some new variances in the F1 community, and strategically grow your brands (currently established teams [including HAAS] will also eventually benefit I am willing to bet). One example, you have more talent than seats currently and 2 more seats (with associated reserve driver seats) will help with those limitations and the engineering talent will get expanded as well. America will not be taking over F1 (NASCAR and Indy will endure here) and the European history of F1 will always be prominent (FOM keep the European iconic tracks please, it’s a heritage thing). Finally, eventually the MONEY component WILL CATCH-UP, but sometimes you have to invest/bet big to win big.
Ayyyy 2 more drivers!
I just read that ultimately, Andretti derives from the Greek word Andres meaning "manly and by extension, warrior". So Warrior F1? I thiink it sounds good!
Its probably never going to happen, but I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that Lamborghini comes in as a 12th team, I'M NOT LOSING ANY SLEEP OVER IT, I'm just hoping real hard😊.
I am interested in the american aspect of f1 going forward, i just hope we DO NOT get any more USA based GPs, give us one in africa, bring more south american ones back, give us exciting tracks
Haas was asked to join when the class of 2011 went bankrupt in 2014-2016 due to the lack of a promised bugetcap. Haas said yes and I can't imagine Andretti wasn't asked at that time. Andretti showed interest only when the costcap was insrated and functional. Due to Andretti's tone internationally FOM,was seen as the villain. Now Renault is pulling out and FOM are desperate to spread the risks with PU manufacturers. So Cadillac is welcome now without the Andretti name.
I am so hyped by this possibility, because if they are actually able to build a competitive car given the lack of restrictions at the moment, it could make for some very chaotic and exciting seasons, changing the grid order a little bit. At this point my question would be though: who do you think they’d choose as drivers? Experienced line up, like Riccardo and Bottas or someone from the active grid for example, a rookie pair, a mix, or a full American pair from another motorsport series? ‘Cause I feel like if you want security and a bit of more assured success, you’d go for experience, but we’ve seen it doesn’t always translate…
I would've rather seen a return of Lotus than Andretti. Those cars looked amazing.
I am really concerned by the prospect of GM owning and managing the team. US-Based private equity isn’t exactly known for their skills at managing the companies under their control, but rather their ability to gut them out and run a skeleton crew in the name of profits.
GM always let their partners to handle the racing side of things. Example: Corvettes are usually run by Pratt & Miller, while their Cadillac WEC programme is handled by Ganassi.
I don’t really like GM or Cadillac, so I was hoping against the odds that they’d use Corvette branding in F1. That doesn’t really make sense given the investment needed. GM has been trying to alter people’s perception of Cadillac for decades as the average age of customers was literally in the retirement zone.
Maybe it’s already working as I did go to their website to check out the cars and the 2025 models look more appealing than I imagined they would look. It doesn’t scream “cheapskate, rip-off, old GM brand manufacturer” like many of the 2024 and earlier models. They’re still not fantastic from what I can tell, and probably are not worth the price compared to the competition, but it’s a step forward for them in my opinion. I think the only Cadillac car I ever got excited for was the XLR way back when I had just started high school.
Probably already came up, but what about "The A-Team"?
You bet, Checo will be Cadillac driver 2026, bringing in top team info and experience
Do you know which driver already has a link with Cadillac? Felipe Drugovich
As a Chevy guy. 100% jumped outa bed!
OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH PLEASE TWO AMERICAN TEAMS! WE NEED THE SEATS 😂🎉
So many situations would be improved if old men would just stop fighting each other 🙄 Thanks for this update!
An announcement this weekend Vegas perhaps? Or too soon? 🤞🏻
ANDRETTI WDC 2026 LET'S GOOOOOOO
More likely AM and Fernando....
More importantly, who do you think will be their first two drivers?
At the cost of Bottas being 25 in a 22 driver competition 😂
If Andretti 2026, which drivers would they pick up?
Bottas and Franco
@chiefkeef74 Are you sure?
Logan and goatifi
pato oward, colton herta and maybe kmag
Colton Herta is almost guaranteed to be one of them.
Hopefully they will have the same results as the 3 new teams we got last decade.Rather have F2 teams move up into F1.
I'd say: Checking.
About bloody time! (if it's really happening...)
Still having to -bribe- buy their way in to the club really stinks. But who ever said business had anything good to do with morals?
An idea Andretti and GM - while you're not in the club and subject to their rules test and develop like crazy, it will serve them right!
I would like to see 14 teams
Unfortunately the max allowed by FIA is 13 and the current Concorde Agreement allows for 12
Andretti. Great! Need a 12th team as well. Vi-tech? Red Bull to sell VCARB to Prema with Ford or Ferrari engines and keep the driver academy? BMW to Williams? Toyota to take over HAAS? Big changes coming. Hyundai. Get rid of the politics!!!
Likes before the video is even able to finish 🤔
why people hates Michael in F1?
Finally an American F1 team!
Just like clockwork i go on my 10:00 break and i open up yt and theres Law 😂