Racing: 2024 Formula 1 Season

[PanniniClaus]

F1 agrees to GM joining grid for 2026 season

Formula 1 has confirmed an 11th team, run by General Motors, will join the grid in 2026.

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That's more like it. Certainly room for 11 teams and GM is one big name.

 

[Albatros]

Blackmailed their way in, rightly or wrongly. Would be great to have more than 4 or 5 competitive teams, but currently there are too many that are a waste of gasoline already.

 

[PanniniClaus]

Blackmailed their way in, rightly or wrongly. Would be great to have more than 4 or 5 competitive teams, but currently there are too many that are a waste of gasoline already.

Hybrids lol .

There are more than enough good young drivers and having 22 seats for them to fill feels like a good thing to me. The grid can support 24, would not shock me if some big oil money from Asia gets a team for 27 or 28.

 

[Albatros]

Six or so teams with optional 3rd cars reserved exclusively to U21 drivers would probably achieve more in that regard.

 

[JoVel]

11 or 12 teams is fine I think. 10 isn't awfully low either, but it's a point where they really can't afford to lose a single team.

We'll see how they approach their drivers. I hope they can actually bring in someone exciting. If they enter the sport with a lineup of Bottas and Ricciardo I might actually lose it.

 

[Albatros]

I'll be surprised if it's not Herta & Crawford. Both rather meh, though I guess it does add something.