Despite the fact that they recently announced, and we wrote about it, that an eleventh F1 team is coming, the joy was mixed with a "small" unpleasant feeling.
Anyway, it's great news that the hurdles to a new team joining have been cleared, but it's not due to the kindness of those involved. Rather, it's because instead of the originally planned $200 million, the league is getting $450 million, which means they were willing to be nice for two and a half times that amount...
This means that General Motors must pay more than three seasons of costs in advance to even begin to communicate with them and be able to get the right to start. This amount will be divided between the already active teams, it is not yet known in what proportion. However, international media speculate that if all teams share in the income equally, everyone will be enriched by an amount that corresponds to the rewards for the last two teams in the constructors' championship - just because GM backed out.
The entry of the Americans will also break down an old, related rule: until now, every team had a share of the sports revenue, but from now on, logically, only the top ten will have it.
