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Ex-Alpine boss wants to launch 12th F1 team

May 6 Former Alpine and Aston Martin team boss Otmar Szafnauer has set his sights on his most ambitious Formula 1 project yet. With Cadillac set to make its debut next year as F1's new eleventh team, Szafnauer was in Miami last week and revealed his ambition to further expand the grid to its maximum 12 teams. 'Before I arrived in Formula 1 with BAR, there were even more teams than that – back when there was pre-qualifying,' he said at the Fuelling the City's Global Spotlight event, according to the French magazine Auto Hebdo. 'So if a twelfth team materialises, I want to be ready to be the successful candidate,' the 60-year-old added. 'There's definitely enough room for 12 teams,...
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