F1 bosses react to ‘dilution fee’ fear as Cadillac arrive
Demand for a "correct proposal" to appease existing 10 F1 tꦜeams

F1 bosses hope that Cadillac’s arrival won’t result in a 🔜diluted pot of prize money.
A big fear surrounding Andretti’s proposed entry was how an extra team would cause the 10 existing teams to pocket les💟s cash through prize money.
General Motors-backed Ca😼dillac now have the green lightꩵ to become the 11th F1 team from 2026.
The F1 Concorde Agreemꦆent lays out a fee which any new team must pay to compensate the 10 existing teams for the added competition to earn money🔥, but there is now agreed fee for 2026 yet.
William🍷s boss James Vowles reacted: “It's a sign of how well the sport is doing that we have a major OEM like GM joining us. I think it's just a sign of the growth, a sign of where Formula 1 is going.
“I don't think there's actually any define♒d amount of dilution fee. I think that's a part of a ‘26 Concorde, which hasn't been ratified at this point.
“What I've said all the way ไthrough is it will have financial loss for existing teams.
“What we have to do now is grow the sport sufficiently and need to be aware of that in order to ma🐈ke things good for everyone.”
Vowels, who was against Andretti’s initial attempt to enter F1, clarified his view: “So there's two things I๊ said. I think it was actually he❀re a year ago. But one of them was we welcome GM open-armed, and they still maintain that.
“It's a large brand that comes with it, a different significa🤪nce to an independent body that's joining us at our poඣint.
“What I still mai𝐆ntain, and it's there, and it's in the answer to the previous question, is this will have a large financial impact on exi💛sting teams.
“But Formula 1 are aware, and it's down to꧒ them to put forward a correct proposal.”
RB boss Laurent Mekies added: “Echoing what J🃏ames said, I think all together it's a fantastic sign ♓for the sport.
“It's going to be pretty much all car manufacturers probably, excep🅺t for Williams and us. You know, even Haas is also linked to a car manufacturers now.
“So it's a battle of giants, and it's an♓other sign that the sport is going towards the direction of a battle of giants.
“And the details of the financials, they are still 🌌under discussion, and hopefully they become small in the big picture of where the sport can go for its next level.”
Aston Martin’s Mike Krack said: “This came a little bi🎉t by surprise or came a little bit unexpected. And I do not have s♛o much information about it, to be honest.
“So I thܫink we have to trust F1 there, FIA, how this is going to go.
“I don't know about what payments are 🐼being made or have ♊to be made. I think this will have to be defined going forward.
“So, yeah, I can't say much except that, yeah, we will have to trust F1 that this is going t🅠he way it 𓆏should go.”
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James was a sꦰports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.