Following FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s assertion earlier this yr that he needed the governing physique to judge the concept, paperwork have now been formally revealed for events to precise their curiosity in becoming a member of.
In an announcement issued on Friday, the FIA stated it will consider the potential of recent groups based mostly on “rigorous monetary and technical evaluation” in addition to “sustainability and constructive societal affect standards.”
The FIA defined that every utility would wish to show its technical functionality and assets, together with funding ranges, in addition to its related expertise.
Moreover, candidates should handle how they’d handle sustainability components within the push for F1 to turn out to be carbon impartial from 2030.
The earliest a brand new group would be capable to be part of the grid can be 2025, with potential entrants needing to pay non-refundable $20,000 admin charge when expressing curiosity.
Talking concerning the launch of the brand new group course of, Ben Sulayem, stated: “The expansion and attraction of the FIA Components 1 World Championship is at unprecedented ranges.
“The FIA believes the situations are proper for events, which meet the choice standards, to precise a proper curiosity in getting into the championship.
“For the primary time ever, as a part of the choice situations, we’re requesting that candidates set out how they’d meet the FIA’s sustainability benchmarks and the way they’d make a constructive societal affect by sport.
“The method is a logical extension of the constructive acceptance of the FIA’s 2026 F1 Energy Unit Laws from engine producers which has attracted Audi to Components 1 and created curiosity amongst different potential entrants.”
Ben Sulayem’s assertion earlier within the yr, suggesting new group bids have been to be thought-about, triggered the Andretti World organisation to go public with its plans to tie up with Cadillac for a transfer into F1.
However whereas Andretti’s ambitions have excited the FIA, they haven’t but fully gained over potential rivals on the grid, nor F1 house owners Liberty Media.
Present entrants and FOM are keen to raised perceive the advantages {that a} new F1 group will convey.
That is particularly necessary for the ten squads on the grid in the intervening time, who would threat seeing their share of the business rights earnings diluted by having new groups enter.
Haas was the final new group to affix the F1 grid in 2016
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New Williams group principal James Vowles stated final month that it was key any effort to convey new entrants in was solely motivated by rising the game – and didn’t threat destabilising the established order.
“We’re all the time open to the game rising, however the fact behind it’s the sport financially must turn out to be increasingly more profitable,” he stated.
“Whoever joins in that setting must convey with it successfully the expansion that’s required to ensure that everybody else to be in a greater place, or at the least a impartial place.
“And I feel it has been the assertion from the outset, from the start.
“There are numerous beautiful issues about Andretti and about Cadillac. It simply must have a very good understanding of the way it will develop the game, in what means, and what the expansion shall be.”
Any determination about new groups becoming a member of the grid must be made collectively with each the FIA and FOM.
Talking to Motorsport.com on the latest Monte Carlo rally, Ben Sulayem stated that Andretti had to this point been the one organisation that had straight proven an curiosity.
“To us straight, it’s Andretti,” he stated about it being “to date” the one occasion to have come ahead.
The FIA expects that the formal course of to grasp the viability of recent entrants will final till April 30.
It then says any determination a few new group being given the inexperienced mild shall be made by June 30.
It was additionally made clear within the FIA paperwork {that a} ultimate name is not only all the way down to the governing physique.
“For the avoidance of doubt, no new applicant has an computerized proper of entry to the championship and the utmost variety of groups competing within the championship as much as and together with the 2025 season is capped at 12,” it stated.
“Current F1 groups shall be given precedence over new candidates. Within the occasion that no applicant is taken into account appropriate by the FIA and/or by the F1 Business Rights Holder, no new F1 group(s) shall be chosen.”