Although it was recently announced, and we also wrote about it, that the eleventh F1 team is coming, the joy has been mixed with a "small" bitter taste.
It's certainly great news that the obstacles to the new team's incorporation have been cleared, but all of this isn't due to the generosity of the participants. Rather, it's because instead of the anticipated $200 million, the "league" will receive $450 million—two and a half times as much. They were already willing to be generous...
All of this means that General Motors must pay more than three seasons' worth of costs upfront so that they can at least talk to them and actually obtain the right to participate. This amount will be distributed among the existing teams, although the proportion is still unknown. However, the international press speculates that if all teams receive the same share of the revenue, then they will all benefit from an amount equal to the prize money of the last two teams in the constructors' championship, simply because they lost to GM.
With the entry of the Americans, a long-standing rule is also affected: until now, all teams received a share of the sport's revenue, but from now on, obviously only the top ten will enjoy this.
