General Motors expects to hold a meeting with Formula 1 management to return to the issue of creating an 11th team, as an application submitted by Andretti and Cadillac, the premium division of the American group, was rejected in January.
Jim Campbell, General Motors’ vice president in charge of motorsport programs, said that together with Andretti they had submitted a proposal to the FOM to hold such a meeting to understand the situation, as their application had already been approved on FIA level. .
“With regard to our application, which we submitted together with Andretti, we are in a good mood in this regard,” Campbell told the American publication Autoweek. – The FIA studied and approved our application, rejected others, and then the FOM, as you know, made its own statement, but now we ask for a meeting with the FOM, so we will continue in this direction to work.
We believe Andretti and Cadillac are capable of creating a competitive team. We’re not saying it will be easy, but there have been examples in the past where our two organizations have achieved success in other motorsport categories. At the same time, the united team of our specialists continues to develop the Formula 1 car at full speed – this is how things stand now.
Again, we believe our application makes a compelling case for both the Andretti racing team and Cadillac’s manufacturing and technological capabilities. We know that for sure, so we ask FOM for a conversation.”
Source: F1 News
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