Andretti-Cadillac had not seen the email from F1 due to the spam filter

In any case, Andretti-Cadillac will not be allowed to participate in F1 as an eleventh team until 2028. Racing bosses do not believe that the American team is a ‘competitive competitor’ and that Andretti and Cadillac get more value from F1 and not the other way around. F1 was very spicy in their words, but maybe Andretti and Cadillac themselves caused a little trouble.

A Formula One Management (FOM) board member sent an email to Andretti-Cadillac to invite the team to a site meeting. A capable F1 team was allowed to present the plans to various stakeholders. The meeting was scheduled for December 12 last year, but FOM did not receive a response from the team. ‘Then no,’ FOM must have thought.

Andretti-Cadillac detects the email in spam

The racing team is surprised by FOM’s comments. Andretti-Cadillac never received an invitation, they believed. The IT team checked all mailboxes again. The team found the invitation in Andretti-Cadillac’s spam. Normally the emails would go from FOM to the F1 team Stefano Domenicali, but now the message was from a board member.

Andretti-Cadillac wants to accept that invitation again and again. ‘We would not refuse a meeting with Formula One Management. A physical meeting to discuss business matters would have been and still is very important to Andretti-Cadillac,” the team wrote, according to AP news. The ball is now back in FOM’s court.

We are curious if F1 will still schedule a meeting with Andretti-Cadillac. The question remains whether an earlier submission would have changed the outcome. The reasons given by F1 bosses for not allowing Andretti-Cadillac are quite clear, but who knows, the Americans might have a better chance if the email was answered at all. Moral of the story? Check your spam box regularly.