Cadillac is closer to being accepted by F1. To achieve this, they have had to remove someone who had been their leader for 20 years.

The most absurd controversy that is remembered in the recent history of Formula 1 seems to be one step closer to being resolved. Or at least that is deduced from the latest movements of the Andretti team. It seems that Cadillac could soon be accepted as a grid teamalthough to do so they have had to make a great sacrifice.

In the last hours Andretti Global has announced that Michael Andretti is leaving the company. The owner, who had been leading the team for two decades, has sold his participation to disassociate himself from the Cadillac project in Formula 1. It seems that it was an express request from Liberty Media to accept his entry.

“I will do everything possible so that Michael is not in F1,” said the Liberty Media boss

Sometimes we believe that great businessmen are sharks that are indifferent to emotions, but reality continues to show us that this is a mistake. Because that seems to be exactly what has led Liberty Media to veto Andretti’s entry into Formula 1 for years: a simple personal quarrel.

Michael Andretti has just announced that he is no longer the owner of Andretti Global. The former American pilot has sold his shares, and everything indicates that he has been an express request from Formula 1 to admit equipment entry. “I will do everything in my power to ensure that Michael never enters Formula 1,” said Greg Maffei, head of Liberty Media.

Andretti is the team on which the Cadillac project is going to be based, which is even willing to build your own engines. Initially it was alleged that it was the rest of the teams that did not want Cadillac, but it has finally become quite clear that it was a simple personal feud between Maffei and Andretti what was stopping everything.

General Motors even took the matter to Congress of the United States, and has continued investing in staff elite for Formula 1. It seems that so much pressure has given Liberty Media’s arm a twist, but with one condition: that Michael Andretti is not present in the Cadillac project.

Dan Towriss will take control of Andretti Global, although the statement warns that Andretti will maintain an advisory and advisory role. We will see if this is enough for Formula 1 to lift an absurd veto against a giant company like General Motors and a team that has proven to be more than solvent, like Andretti.

In the past Liberty Media already prevented Andretti from buying Sauber. We’ll see if with Michael Andretti out of the equation there is less hostility.