FIA主席：中国制造商加入F1需提出“认真报价”
国际汽联主席穆罕默德·本·苏拉耶姆表示，对F1增加第12支车队持开放态度，但任何候选者都必须按照锦标赛的条件加入。
国际汽联主席穆罕默德·本·苏拉耶姆对F1增加第12支车队持开放态度，但表示任何候选者都必须按照锦标赛的条件加入。
本·苏拉耶姆曾推动国际汽联在2023年初启动意向表达程序，以接纳第11支车队加入发车格，尽管许多现有车队反对扩大规模。
尽管持续遭到抵制，凯迪拉克成为该程序中唯一成功的候选者，于2026年初成为F1的第11支车队。
此后，有传言称比亚迪等中国制造商正在权衡是否自行发起参赛。
比亚迪不想收购现有车队（例如奥迪收购索伯），因此任何全新车队都需要国际汽联启动新的意向表达程序。
在马德里举行的新经济论坛上发言时，本·苏拉耶姆为比亚迪这样的制造商重启该程序打开了大门。
“国际汽联可以为第12支车队开放。但是，‘我们需要一支车队吗，主席先生？’不，我们不需要一支车队，我们需要的是那支车队，”本·苏拉耶姆说。
“所以现在我们在美国有三场比赛，我们有一个制造商，我们有哈斯，但我们需要一个OEM[原始设备制造商]。
“所以我说，甚至推广方[F1管理公司]也同意我们需要那支车队，而且那支车队必须来自中国。”
吸引制造商是制定F1 2026年技术规则过程中的关键目标，可持续燃料、动力单元部分电气化以及取消MGU-H都是说服奥迪加入的关键——本田也逆转了其退出F1的决定。
但本·苏拉耶姆明确表示，任何新制造商未来都将按照国际汽联/F1的条件加入。
“我与他们[其他制造商]开过会，他们来了，说我们需要加入。其中一个是比亚迪，一个是吉利。我们说，‘好的，如果你们要来，我们就开放意向表达’。
“但规则不会只受中国[制造商]影响。我们不能这样做。规则必须保持永久性，必须保持稳定性。
“我知道中国在电气化方面领先，但这是实现我们电气化目标的唯一途径吗？我们追求什么？我们追求清洁的环境和清洁的空气。所以有很多方法可以实现。
“现在我们未来对WRC[世界拉力锦标赛]开放氢能、混合动力、电气化，以及可持续燃料。
“所以在我开会时，我非常非常清楚。你们为什么不先收购一支车队——那是对比亚迪说的；我为什么要保密呢？——他们说，‘不，我们想要自己的车队’。
“[本·苏拉耶姆说]‘好的。那么请带着一个我们能看出会奏效的认真报价回来’。这就是我们的规则。我对他们的规则非常清楚。
“我们在中国有一场比赛。规模巨大。制造商，我们也有，我们曾有一位中国车手[周冠宇，2022-24年效力于索伯]，中国的技术就在那里。
“但这必须按照我们的条件和规则，这对每个人都是公平的。因为这也是国际汽联的责任。”
F1目前计划从2031年起转向V8引擎，这对任何新制造商来说都是一个合理的切入点。
英文原文
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem is open to Formula 1 adding a 12th team to the grid, but says any candidate will have to join on the championship's terms.
Ben Sulayem prompted the FIA to launch an expression of interest process in early 2023 for an 11th team to join the grid, despite resistance from many of the existing teams to expand the field.
Cadillac emerged as the sole successful candidate from that process despite continued resistance, becoming F1's 11th team at the start of 2026.
Since then, there's been talk of a Chinese manufacturer such as BYD weighing up whether to launch an entry of its own.
BYD doesn't want to acquire an existing team (as Audi did with Sauber, for example), so any brand-new team would need the FIA to launch a new expression of interest process.
And, speaking at the New Economy Forum in Madrid, Ben Sulayem opened the door to restarting that process for a manufacturer like BYD.
"The FIA can open for a 12th team. But, 'Do we need a team, Mr President?' No, we don't need a team, we need the team," Ben Sulayem said.
"So now we have three races in America and the United States, and we have a manufacturer, we have Haas, but we needed an OEM [manufacturer].
"So I said, and even the promoter, [Formula One Management], agrees that we need the team, and the team has to come from China."
Attracting manufacturers was a key aim of the process of forming F1's 2026 regulations, with sustainable fuel, partial electrification of the power unit and then the removal of the MGU-H all crucial to convincing Audi to join - with Honda also reversing its F1 withdrawal.
But Ben Sulayem made it clear that any new manufacturer would be joining on the terms of the FIA/F1 in future.
"I had meetings with them [other manufacturers], and they came and they said, we need to be in. And one of them was BYD, and one was Geely. And we said, 'OK, we will open the expression of interest if you are coming'.
"But the regulations is not going to be affected only by Chinese [manufacturers]. We cannot do this. The regulations have to stay permanent, and it has to [keep] stability in it.
"I know the Chinese are leading in electrification, but is the only way to reach our target in electrification? What are we after? We are after a clean environment and clean air. So there are so many ways to reach it.
"Now we are opening to hydrogen, hybrid, electrification for the WRC [World Rally Championship] in the future, and sustainable fuel.
"So when I had my meetings, I was very, very clear. Why don't you take a team to start with - that was with BYD; why should I be secret about it? - and they said, 'No, we want a team ourselves'.
"[Ben Sulayem said] 'Fine. Then come back with a serious offer that we can see that it's going to work'. And this is our regulations. I was very clear with them about the regulation.
"We have a race in China. It's huge. The manufacturers, we have also, we had a Chinese driver [Zhou Guanyu who raced for Sauber from 2022-24] and the Chinese technology is there.
"But it has to be on our terms and our regulations, which is fair for everyone. Because that's also the responsibility of the FIA."
F1's currently set to move towards having V8 engines from 2031, a logical entry point for any new manufacturer.
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