In any case, Andretti-Cadillac will not be allowed to participate in F1 as the eleventh team until 2028. The racing bosses do not believe that the American team is 'a competitive competitor' and that Andretti and Cadillac get more value from F1 and not the other way around. F1 was quite spicy in their wording, but perhaps Andretti and Cadillac themselves caused the bad mood a bit.
A board member of Formula One Management (FOM) sent an email to Andretti-Cadillac to invite the team to an on-site meeting. The potential F1 team was allowed to present the plans to various stakeholders. The meeting was scheduled for December 12 last year, but FOM received no response from the team. 'Then no,' the FOM must have thought.
Andretti-Cadillac discovers the email in the spam
The racing team is surprised by FOM's comment. Andretti-Cadillac had never received an invitation, they believed. The IT team checked all mailboxes again. The team found the invitation in Andretti-Cadillac's spam. Usually the emails would come from the FOM to the F1 Stefano Domenicali team, but now the message was from a board member.
Andretti-Cadillac wants to accept the invitation retroactively. 'We would not turn down a meeting with Formula One Management. A physical meeting to discuss commercial matters would and still is of great importance for Andretti-Cadillac,” the team wrote, according to AP News. The ball is now back in FOM's court.
We are curious whether F1 will still schedule a meeting with Andretti-Cadillac. The question remains whether the initial presentation would have changed the outcome. The reasons given by the F1 bosses for not allowing Andretti-Cadillac are quite clear, but who knows, the Americans might have had a better chance if the email had been replied to at all. The moral of the story? Check your spam box every now and then.
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