Formula 1 needs to become more "attractive" for manufacturers
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McLaren boss Andreas Seidl believes that Formula 1 needs to become more attractive if other manufacturers are to join the sport. Currently, the sport is very expensive for manufacturers to enter and this is part of the reason as to why they are being put off. Seidl has some ideas as to why there have been few companies to join the sport in recent times.
"In order to be attractive as a sport for a manufacturer to enter again, I think it's also very very important to make sure you can enter this sport with an investment which is a lot smaller compared to what you have to do now," said Seidl to Motorsport.com.
"If you want to enter this category at the moment, then the investment you have to do for the infrastructure, and the budget you have to use in order to get to the point where the established manufacturers are, you have to be realistic.
"It is pretty difficult to imagine that anyone would invest that money at the moment."
Honda were the last manufacturer to join the sport but there were rumors of some bigger names joining. Porsche are thought to have built and engine but decided that it would not be a project to work on.