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superchuck500 said:
Bahrain this weekend.

According to the reports and pre-season chatter I have seen, the Red Bull was outstanding in testing and Max said that they've made it even more suited to his driving style. So unless they just missed on something (highly unlikely) it's near certain that Max will win his 4th championship and Red Bull will win another constructors' title. Checking my sports betting app, if you risk $100 on Max to win the championship, you will win $13.

The interest will again be on second, third, and fourth in the constructors and drivers races. Ferrari looked quite good per reports - and the whole company's racing operations have been apparently performing better than the past handful of years, so there's optimism . . . but also Ferrari.
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Is Cadillac jumping into the fray, or is that next year?
 
Andretti and Cadillac have been rejected for the 2025 season. Possibly could become a team in 2026, but the 10 current teams are heavily against an American entry and extra team on the grid.
 
Maxp said:
Andretti and Cadillac have been rejected for the 2025 season. Possibly could become a team in 2026, but the 10 current teams are heavily against an American entry and extra team on the grid.
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Meh, that stinks. If they want to make more inroads in the US, they need a US team imo.

That said, the bigger issue is if Max and Red Bull continue their stranglehold on the #1 spot and races are decided after lap 1, then they'll have a hard time gaining more new fans.
 
Maxp said:
Andretti and Cadillac have been rejected for the 2025 season. Possibly could become a team in 2026, but the 10 current teams are heavily against an American entry and extra team on the grid.
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I read that the Cadillac power wouldn’t be ready until 2028 at the earliest. Andretti’s plan was to use Renault power units until Cadillac was ready.
 
superchuck500 said:
I read that the Cadillac power wouldn’t be ready until 2028 at the earliest. Andretti’s plan was to use Renault power units until Cadillac was ready.
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Geez, that seems like a long time. But interesting they want to use Renault powerplants in the interim.
 
DaveXA said:
Meh, that stinks. If they want to make more inroads in the US, they need a US team imo.

That said, the bigger issue is if Max and Red Bull continue their stranglehold on the #1 spot and races are decided after lap 1, then they'll have a hard time gaining more new fans.
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F1's USA viewership has doubled since its pre-Covid numbers. It was slightly down last year and I think Red Bull dominance is the primary reason. Nascar has known for years now that parity and competition is the key to big TV audiences but the problem for F1 is that their competition model allows for substantial innovation and the teams spend fortunes on innovation within the spec. A substantial element of F1's base around the world love F1 for racing tech and innovation. The FIA has to be careful about how it tries to engineer greater parity . . . whereas with stock cars, there was always much more parity in the spec, and Nascar has been able to go to a near single-car spec with approved parts without pulling the rug out from under the spirit of the whole sport.

The spending cap and some of the spec revisions have been aimed at greater parity but still we can see that it lends toward dominance. If F1 could produce 2021 competition every year, it would be massive for the sport but I don't think they're willing to try to engineer that exclusively - and I get why they think that.
 

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