F1 and General Motors have reached an agreement in principle for it to enter the sport as a works team and the eleven team taking the number of works teams to six and entries to eleven from 2026. The move comes just ten months after F1 rejected a joint bid by GM and US-owned Andretti
F1 has rejected the American Andretti team’s bid to enter the sport in the next two years – but left the door open for admission in 2028. Andretti’s entry had been approved by the governing body, however, Liberty Media which holds the commercial rights holders F1 felt the proposal for entry in 2025 or 2026
The FIA has given its approval for Andretti to enter F1 as a new entry in 2026, paving the way for it to work on a commercial deal with the owners of the sports Liberty Media. At the start of the year, the sports governing opened the process for new teams to enter the sport.
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