{"id":461564,"date":"2026-02-08T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/461564\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:40:09","slug":"the-cadillac-calculus-f1-has-made-that-weighs-up-450m-today-vs-billions-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/461564\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cadillac calculus F1 has made that weighs up $450m today vs billions tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formula 1 teams agreed to accept $450million to welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/autosport.com\/team\/cadillac\/48928\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cadillac<\/a> onto the grid in 2026 &#8211; the highest entry fee in the championship&#8217;s history. On paper, it looks like a windfall, but in practice, it is a down payment on permanent dilution.<\/p>\n<p>Split 10 ways, the fee delivers $45m to each existing team as compensation for what comes next: an 11th entrant permanently dividing F1&#8217;s prize money. With an annual prize pool of roughly $1.27billion, the mathematics are straightforward. Within a few seasons, the one-off payment is eclipsed by lost revenue, after which the dilution continues indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>            We want to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">Let us know what you would like to see from us in the future.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Autosport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula 1 teams agreed to accept $450million to welcome Cadillac onto the grid in 2026 &#8211; the highest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,4228,48,578,576,577,82,188591],"class_list":{"0":"post-461564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-cadillac","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-formula1","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-the-cadillac-calculus-f1-has-made-that-weighs-up-450m-today-vs-billions-tomorrow"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}