Haas boss Guenther Steiner on Andretti’s hopes to join F1: “Five years ago you could get an F1 team for nothing! 11th team? Dip in economy”
Andretti Autosport, the US-based motorsport juggernauts, want to join the F1 grid as an extra team and the FIA have been receptive tꦉowards it.
But♍ F1 teams have hit back - Red Bull’s Christian Horner’s asked “who will pay for it?” - and now Haas team principal Steiner has railed against it.
He said to Sky: "What upside i𒁃s i♑t bringing? There is just risk, no benefit.
"Five year🍰s ago, you could get teams for nothing, you could pick it up. Nobody wanted them and they went♔ out of business.
"Now, all of a sudden, everybody wants a t🌺eam. But it's a lot of people that want to come in and the 10 teams which are here are all financially stable, all well set up.
“It's a very good environme🧸nt at the momen💫t, no one is struggling.
"If you put an 11th team in and we get a little bit of a dip in the economy or soꦏmething al𝔍l of a sudden maybe people are maybe struggling to survive.
"Why take that risk if there is no upside? It's not up to me to dec🌠ide."
FIA president Mohamme✱d Ben Sulayem’s support of an 11th team on the F1 grid is one of the reasons he has come under intense scrutiny.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American spor📖ꦺts, to football, to F1.
