Pfff… who would want a team with 45 years of history, 9 WCC, 7 WDC, 114 wins and 128 podiums, and that last season scored points 8 times and had 7 Q3 appearances. It’s so much better to have a team that hasn’t designed and/or built a chassis in the last two decades!
You know that the Andretti-GM bid is about being the 11th team and not to replace one of the existing backmarkers, right?
Then your meme makes no sense. The three teams at the bottom picture aren’t bidding for a 11th entry, so there is no point in comparing them. They can’t “bring” value to F1 (whatever value they have is already part of F1) and they have proven to be much more competitive than the backmakers of the '80s, '90s, '00s or ‘10s. Andretti is quite likely to be similar to those old-time backmakers (no experience in chassis, no technical partnership with an established F1 team, a project with 4 different sites between America and Europe that somehow is even worse than Haas’) and has failed to prove that they bring enough money in the long-run to offset the costs associated to a new entry: FOM is purely motivated by greed, if they thought that Andretti could bring loyal spectators and not just a short-timed fad, they would be in.
And if you take a look at reddit (yeah, I know I shouldn’t), there is a lot of people that are seriously proposing forcing one of the existing teams to sell to Andretti or even kicking them out of F1. So it wasn’t totally out of question that this meme was advocating for replacing one if the existing teams.
Then your meme makes no sense.
It is obviously in the context of today’s news. This is a community for dumb motorsports jokes. Dumb jokes don’t need to make 100% sense every time.
I’m happy to see you make posts here that are more nuanced fun. Just because I happily skip nuances or outright ignore facts for which I think makes for a funny joke, doesn’t mean that more nuanced posts aren’t welcome here.
Andretti is quite likely to be similar to those old-time backmakers (no experience in chassis
Luckily GM/Cadillac is spearheading this since some time who have some experience in sportscar racing.
And if you take a look at reddit (yeah, I know I shouldn’t), there is a lot of people that are seriously proposing forcing one of the existing teams to sell to Andretti or even kicking them out of F1. So it wasn’t totally out of question that this meme was advocating for replacing one if the existing teams.
I did not make a reply on Reddit, I made a stand-alone joke here. I sometimes look there if something makes me chuckle so I can crosspost it here but I’m no longer active in discussions because of scumbag mods in /r/formuladank.
