Formula 1 and the FIA have together got themselves into a potentially sticky situation regarding additional new teams. It will be recalled that FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem opened up the tendering process for potential new teams a couple of years ago and that Michael Andretti’s Andretti Autosport IndyCar team jumped through the required hoops to apply. Three others have since done so, the most serious-looking of them being Hitech, the Silverstone-based team with a great reputation in the FIA feeder formulas, F2, F3, Formula Regional and F4. It expanded with the
