![]() “We have quite a few people already working for us,” he said. ![]() We’ll bring a tremendous amount of support now for F1, and it’s hard for anyone to argue with that now.”Īndretti’s deep into the hiring process to staff his eponymous F1 venture. “That was the one box we didn’t have checked that we do have now. “One of the big things had been, ‘What does Andretti bring to the party?’ Well, we bring one of the biggest manufacturers in the world now in GM and Cadillac. “To have an American manufacturer behind an American team with an American driver, I think, is going to be the biggest story of the year,” Andretti told reporters Thursday. Though Thursday’s news – a partnership with General Motors for an ‘expression of interest’ into F1’s potential expansion through GM’s Cadillac brand – still leaves several questions regarding Andretti’s latest charge towards motorsports’ mountaintop, he and GM President Mark Reuss made clear they believe they’ve crafted an unimpeachable prospect. What followed was the tweet heard round the motorsports world, and Andretti Global and decisionmakers at the FIA and Formula 1 would go for the next several months trading barbs over financial solvency, the impact and weight of the Andretti name and the need and value of a truly American team in a sport yearning to find a stronger foothold in this market. Finding themselves in mid-February without so much as a follow-up, he and his famous father Mario decided to go rogue. Then Abu Dhabi happened, followed five days later by the election of a new FIA president. ![]() The FIA told Andretti it wanted to get through the end of what had been a wild 2021 season and hoped to get him an answer by early January. 'We're here because it's our life': Andretti hopes to hear from FIA about F1 bid within a month Insider: How and why Michael Andretti is building an unmatched racing empire ![]()
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