‘Serious People’ Backing Ex-Boss as 12th F1 Team Attempt Gathers Momentum

Former F1 boss reveals exciting plans for 12th team on the grid

An ex-Formula 1 boss has lifted the lid on his plans to bring a 12th team to the grid in the not too distant future.

After Cadillac, will we soon see a 12th team in F1, and a 24-car grid? We're still very far away, but this is the project on which Otmar Szafnauer is currently working. The respected team manager, former of Force India or d的Alpine, is indeed manoeuvring to orchestrate a mysterious... but ambitious project according to him. Who is behind this 12th team project, apart from Otmar Szafnauer himself? A constructor? Investors? (...)

‘Serious people’ backing ex-boss as 12th F1 team attempt gathers momentum

Former Alpine boss Otmar Szafnauer said he has “serious people” backing him as he looks to create a 12th Formula 1 team.

Szafnauer has engine and funding for 12th F1 team plan

Otmar Szafnauer has a group of "serious people" ready to finance a 12th team in Formula 1, as well as a car manufacturer "in place that wants to join".The ex-Aston Martin and Alpine F1 team principal revealed during the recent Miami Grand Prix, at a business forum co-hosted by The Race, that he's been working on proposals for a new Formula 1 team with the aim of being first in the queue should a new tender process launch.Speaking on the latest e…