FIA launch application process for new teams to join Formula 1 from 2025 with Andretti, Honda and Hy
Formula 1’s governing body, the FIA, have launched an application process for new teams to join the grid from 2025.
The process could well see an extra two teams added to the current 10-team grid, taking the total number of drivers from 20 to 24.
Among the names linked with joining F1 are American outfit Andretti, who recently received a huge boost to their bid with the backing of General Motors giants Cadillac.
Other parties that have expressed an interest to enter include Honda, Hyundai, Hitech and Panthera.
Motoring behemoths Volkswagen will finally join the grid in 2026 when their Audi brand takes over the current Alfa Romeo Sauber outfit, while their other marque, Porsche, also held unsuccessful talks with Red Bull over engine supply.
Setting out the criteria to enter, FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem said: “The growth and appeal of the FIA Formula One World Championship is at unprecedented levels.
“The FIA believes the conditions are right for interested parties, which meet the selection criteria, to express a formal interest in entering the Championship.
“For the first time ever, as part of the selection conditions, we are requesting that candidates set out how they would meet the FIA’s sustainability benchmarks and how they would make a positive societal impact through sport.
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“The process is a logical extension of the positive acceptance of the FIA’s 2026 F1 Power Unit Regulations from engine manufacturers which has attracted Audi to Formula 1 and created interest among other potential entrants.”
As things stand, Andretti look by far the most serious candidate to join the grid, having expressed their intent to do so earlier this year.
Named after, and led by, 1987 F1 world champion Mario Andretti, the American outfit have had success in numerous other motorsports.
Their efforts have met some resistance, though, with Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff claiming they ‘wouldn’t add anything to F1’.
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