Chandhok: Haas have shown a new team can enter and be competitive
Chandhok: Haas have shown a new team can enter and be competitive
Former Formula One driver turned pundit Karun Chandhok hopes that the $175million budget cap for 2021 onwards will help to entice new teams into the sport.
Having raced with Lotus and HRT in 2010 and 2011, Chandhok has first-hand knowledge of what it is like for a Formula One team to enter the sport from scratch. Along with Virgin Racing, both teams began their journey in the 2010 season after signing up with the promise of a budget cap being introduced.
However, the cap was never introduced and all three teams dropped out of the sport by the end of 2015, Virgin – then Marussia – the last to exit.
From 2021, a strict $175m budget cap will be in force and Chandhok thinks that now could be the right time for some independent teams to consider a Formula One campaign.
“First of all, we haven’t seen it come into effect,” Chandhok told GPFans. “So lets give things a chance. Obviously, they haven’t just plucked this number out of thin air. This number has been arrived at after a long period of meetings and negotiations amongst all the ten teams.
“It’s in F1’s interest to keep all ten teams happy.
“Through this process, they’ve arrived at this number and I think now we’ve just got to see how this works. Once we’ve seen two or three years of that working, then we can judge whether that [figure] needs to be adjusted up or down.”
Alongside the budget cap, new regulations designed to improve the racing and bunch the field together will give any teams considering an entry further cause to believe that they won’t find themselves stuck at the back of the pack.
“It’s just about money, it’s about the technical regulations as well,” continued Chandhok. “Were hopefully going towards a set of regulations where the raceability improves and therefore the show improves and therefore it’s better for sponsors and for people.
“They’re talking about standardising certain parts and they’ve obviously got the listed components that you can get, like Haas have done and Toro Rosso have done with the Red Bull technology. All of those things, and Haas is a good example of showing that a new team can arrive and can partner with key technical partners to make their program work and score points at least.
“The teams that came in 2010, I was involved with two of them, when they’re having to do everything from the ground up, that’s a completely different prospect.”
Related
Change your timezone:
Latest News
F1 News Today: Alonso hit with China PENALTY as Hamilton endures Shanghai nightmare
- 6 minutes ago
F1 star PENALISED following controversial Chinese GP incident
- 53 minutes ago
F1 Qualifying Results: Chinese Grand Prix 2024 times - 100th Red Bull pole as Hamilton crashes out in Q1
- 1 hour ago
Hamilton suffers CATASTROPHIC F1 qualifying after early exit
- 1 hour ago
Chinese Grand Prix qualifying red flagged after unusual HIGH SPEED crash
- 1 hour ago
F1 Chinese Grand Prix weather forecast - latest today from Shanghai
- 2 hours ago
Related news
F1 reveal remarkable 109m TV audience for Hamilton Verstappen Abu Dhabi showdown
Masi made the right decision in 'heart-pumping' finale - Grosjean
F1 battle of the team-mates
F1's best moments from a chaotic and controversial 2021
F1 Standings
Drivers
- Oliver Bearman
- Charles Leclerc
- Carlos Sainz
- Lando Norris
- Oscar Piastri
- Pierre Gasly
- Esteban Ocon
- Sergio Pérez
- Max Verstappen
- Alexander Albon
- Logan Sargeant
- Lewis Hamilton
- George Russell
- Nico Hülkenberg
- Kevin Magnussen
- Fernando Alonso
- Lance Stroll
- Valtteri Bottas
- Zhou Guanyu
- Daniel Ricciardo
- Yuki Tsunoda
Races
- Gulf Air Grand Prix of Bahrain 2024
- Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2024
- Grand Prix of Australia 2024
- MSC Cruises Grand Prix of Japan 2024
- Grand Prix of China 2024
- Miami Grand Prix 2024
- Gran Premio dell'Emilia Romagna 2024
- Grand Prix of Monaco 2024
- Grand Prix du Canada 2024
- Gran Premio de España 2024
- Grand Prix of Austria 2024
- Grand Prix of Great Britain 2024
- Grand Prix of Hungary 2024
- Grand Prix of Belgium 2024
- Heineken Dutch Grand Prix 2024
- Grand Prix of Italy 2024
- Grand Prix of Azerbaijan 2024
- Grand Prix of Singapore 2024
- Grand Prix of the United States 2024
- Gran Premio de la Ciudad de Mexico 2024
- Grande Prêmio de São Paulo 2024
- Heineken Silver Las Vegas Grand Prix 2024
- Qatar Grand Prix 2024
- Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi 2024
About GPFans
GPFans is a multi-platform, multi-language brand dedicated to Formula One coverage. We bring you all the ins and outs of the sport, 24/7, everything from up-to-the-minute news and features to the latest viral stories and clips.We believe that a new generation of exciting, outspoken drivers will make F1 more popular than ever before, and we want to give our users access to as much of their heroes as possible, on and off the track. From Lewis Hamilton to Max Verstappen, Daniel Ricciardo to Sebastian Vettel, we provide in-depth analysis of every every Grand Prix in the season, from Australia to Abu Dhabi.
With Formula One under the new ownership of Liberty Media, how the sport is being covered is evolving, and GPFans will look to be at the heart of this progression into new media, as one of the fastest-growing sites covering the king of motorsports.
Follow us on your favorite social media channel
Corporate & Media
Innovatieweg 20C7007 CD, Doetinchem, Netherlands
+31645516860