FIA launches application process for prospective new teams

Following Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s name final month for potential F1 groups to enter an Expressions of Curiosity, the FIA has in the present day formally launched the applying course of.

After all, at a time there’s already a rising rift between the FIA president and the game’s homeowners, Liberty Media, this won’t go down nicely as nearly all of the groups and Components One Administration imagine that ten groups is sufficient.

“The FIA welcomes curiosity from entities with a critical intent to enter the FIA Components One World Championship,” learn a quick assertion from the game’s governing physique.

“The excessive stage of curiosity from a lot of potential candidates is additional proof of the recognition and development of the Championship,” it added.

All candidates will bear thorough due diligence and the evaluation of every utility will cowl specifically the technical capabilities and sources of the workforce, the flexibility of the workforce to lift and keep enough funding to permit participation within the Championship at a aggressive stage and the workforce’s expertise and human sources.

Additionally, for the primary time ever, any candidate can be required to handle how it might handle the sustainability problem and the way it plans to realize a net-zero CO2 impression by 2030. Any potential F1 workforce would additionally have to illustrate how they intend to realize a optimistic societal impression by its participation within the sport. This could assist meet the mutual goals of the FIA and Components One Administration.

The general long-term pursuits of the Championship, involving all stakeholders, will decide which candidates are chosen along with the relevant rules and governance preparations.

The phrases of the formal utility course of (along with the entire choice standards, relevant deadlines, authorized necessities and different circumstances) will probably be communicated to candidates that submit a preliminary expression of curiosity to the FIA.

“The expansion and attraction of the FIA Components One World Championship is at unprecedented ranges,” mentioned Mohammed Ben Sulayem. “The FIA believes the circumstances are proper for events, which meet the choice standards, to specific a proper curiosity in getting into the Championship.

“For the primary time ever, as a part of the choice circumstances, we’re requesting that candidates set out how they’d meet the FIA’s sustainability benchmarks and the way they’d make a optimistic societal impression by sport.

“The method is a logical extension of the optimistic 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.”