F1 | Ross Brawn: “We're not looking for new teams at the moment”

Since the 2017 season, Formula 1 has returned to having only ten teams on its grid, after at the beginning of the decade, three teams had joined the Circus in the hope that Formula 1 would introduce that budget cap which was seen as the possibility of limit costs in a particularly complicated economic period. This, however, did not occur and year after year those three teams disappeared, until in the winter break between the 2016 and 2017 seasons Manor went into receivership and subsequently declared bankruptcy.

Over the last few years, with the exception of Renault which took over the pre-existing structures of Lotus, only one new team has compensated for the abandonment of the teams that had joined together at the beginning of the decade, namely Haas, which saw the Formula 1 as a chance to advertise its products after having been particularly active in American racing. Recently other new companies have also come forward regarding a possible entry into the top open wheel competition but nothing concrete has ever been achieved. From this point of view, Ross Brawn stated that, at the moment, Formula 1 is focused more on giving guarantees to the ten existing teams already present on the grid than on the search for a new potential team: “At the moment, everything is based on 10 teams and I don't think in this situation, we would be looking around to add new teams anytime soon. Obviously you never know what's around the corner, we're creating a more sustainable economic environment for teams, so I'm sure people will now look at this possibility from a different point of view than they probably did two or three years ago. does. But we have ten teams, they are big teams, we know that some of them need support and at the moment we are focused on putting these ten teams in the best possible conditions. So I don't think the issue of extra teams is something we're focused on at the moment."

“If we lost a team, then there would be the opportunity for another team to come to Formula 1. But it has to be the right team, we cannot afford situations like those that have happened in the past, teams that have come and gone because they simply don't it had pretty strong foundations,” Brawn later added during an interview with RaceFans.net. It is important to remember, in fact, that to register for the Formula 1 World Championship, a team must provide precise financial guarantees and that, in the first years in the Circus, it should renounce the FOM prizes, exactly as required by the regulations.