Although it was recently announced, and we wrote about it, that an eleventh team would be joining F1, the joy was overshadowed by a "slight" unpleasant aftertaste.
It's certainly great news that the hurdles to joining the new group have been removed, but this isn't due to the goodwill of the participants. Rather, it's because instead of $200 million, the amount requested has increased to $450 million, two and a half times more, and now they're willing to be kind...
This means that General Motors must pay more than three seasons of competition costs in advance in order to negotiate with them and win the right to participate. This amount will be distributed among the already active teams, in what proportion it is not yet known. However, international press rumors suggest that if all teams receive an equal share of the income, then each will benefit from an amount equal to that of the teams ranked in the last two places in the constructors' competition - just because they gave way to GM.
With the entry of the Americans, an old relevant rule will be changed: until now, every team has benefited from sports revenues, but from now on, logically, only the top ten will share in this benefit.
