Audi And Porsche are the big manufacturers – both of the Volkaswagen group – ready to take advantage of the new regulation dedicated to power units that will debut in 2026 to make their entry into F1. Currently the Circus has ten teams registered for the championship and an entry (i.e. a license to be able to line up two cars on the starting grid) must be accompanied by the payment of 200 million dollars of registration fee, the necessary compensation to be paid to the other participants. given that the ‘pie’ of revenue to be shared would require at that point an extra slice, which would be substantially anticipated by the new competitor through the registration fee.
For this reason, all those who have approached F1 have preferred detect a team already present on the starting grid to circumvent this protectionist rule that gives great value to the stables inside the Circus, which after going through the economic difficulties related to the pandemic seems destined for a prosperous future also thanks to measures such as the expenditure ceiling introduced starting from 2021. Lawrence Stroll took possession of the ex-Force India, transforming it first into Racing Point and then bringing the Aston Martin back to the grid starting from last season. Dmitri Mazepin, beaten by Stroll in the Force India race, began his climb by becoming title sponsor of Haas and Michael Andretti also attempted to complete a similar operation by approaching and not a little to Alfa Romeo-Sauber but then failing to close the deal in the last months of 2021. Porsche and Audi are directed to do the same, that is not to field an official team in F1, but to become the power unit suppliers of stables, some of which are currently customers of other teams engaged in the circus with the factory team and as an engine supplier to other customer teams. According to the authoritative journalist Dieter Rencken on the newspaper racingnews365.comPorsche and Red Bull are at a very advanced stage of the negotiations and the yes to the formalization of this amazing combination could arrive already in the month of Marchwith AlphaTauri and Williams ready to expand the platoon of cars driven by Porsche power units, which ‘only’ has to decide whether to produce the engines in its factories or decide whether to move to the division under construction in Milton Keynes, Red Bull Powertrains Limited.
McLaren at the end of 2021 denied the rumors anticipated by the newspaper Autocar about an imminent purchase by Audi of the English brand. The house of the Quattro Cerchi through a letter in December had emphasized that it was one step away from the formalization of its return to F1, an intention that should materialize in the first months of 2022. McLaren is not the only team in Audi’s sights, even L’Alfa Romeo Sauberin fact, after having repelled Andretti’s assault, it could instead ‘capitulate’ in front of the prospect of being pushed by the engines produced by the Ingolstadt company.
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