The FIA has conceded that any new entrants to Formula One will still be dependent on the permission of F1’s owners and teams as the governing body formally opened the process for new teams to apply.
The FIA president, Mohammed ben Sulayem, said last month that the FIA was evaluating the process of allowing new applications to join the 10 squads. It was met with a lukewarm response from F1 and most teams because it did not explicitly acknowledge that the commercial rights holder and the teams must also agree to any new entrants.
