Formula 1 only has “a couple of months” to open the door to a new Andretti-Cadillac team in 2025 or 2026. It means that, for the moment, the Andretti bid has the brakes on. “The truth is that we are going on structuring the team day by day, as though there was already a green light from the federation,” Mario Andretti, 82, told the Italian magazine Autosprint. Andretti confirms that his son’s bid has had the support of FIA president ben Sulayem “from the very first moment”. Mario Andretti also scoffed at the existing teams’ arguments about why F1 should think twice about allowing eleventh and twelfth entries to race.

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