As Formula 1 plays hard to get, I am filled with admiration for Michael Andretti's relentless push to have his bid accepted despite the shortsighted reluctance of the current teams, and here's a suggestion: Andretti Audi. The pinnacle of the sport to me means the best of everything, drivers, cars, tyres, engineers, mechanics and of course teams; and sadly of the ten teams currently in F1 probably half of them are in the top ten, the others are not, more like top 50. It's pure greed and reluctance to share the substantial pie that F1 provides, billions of cash funnelled to Liberty Media of course and then shared with the ten teams who are there because of sheer luck rather than pure merit....
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