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Luke Smith

Why the FIA's hope for new F1 teams will be easier said than done

Gone are the days when it was a fight for teams to survive in F1. Not long ago, even the tally of 10 was an achievement - only nine raced towards the end of 2014 - so why not open things up and give F1 more cars, more drivers and more action?

It's something FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem, publicly for the first time, has now expressed a desire in exploring. In a tweet sent from his official account on Monday evening, Ben Sulayem said he had asked his team at the FIA "to look at launching an Expressions of Interest process for prospective new teams for the FIA F1 World Championship."

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