AlphaTauri is reportedly being sold or having to move to the UK. The factory is in Italy, while the aerodynamics department works in Bicester. Red Bull project leader Oliver Mintzlaff would consider the costs too high. Apart from Andretti and Hitech GP, there is a third party interested in a possible Scuderia takeover: Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited.

When Red Bull bought the Minardi team ahead of the 2006 season, one of the deals was that the factory for the new Scuderia Toro Rosso would remain in Faenza, Italy. Now seventeen years later and after a rebranding to become Scuderia AlphaTauri, the headquarters of the energy drink producer’s sister team is still there. Mintzlaff would now discover that the results were exorbitantly high costs. German Automotive, Motorcycle and Sports reports that Andretti, Hitech GP, and Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited are the three parties with an interest in potentially taking over the team being piloted by Yuki Tsunoda and Nyck de Vries.

Collaboration with Prema Racing

Andretti has been in the news all winter for trying to break into the premier class with Cadillac, and Hitech GP is a successful team in Formula 2 and Formula 3. However, Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited may not be such a well-known name. . The team has existed since 2019, but has only been truly active as the Mumbai Falcons since 2021. Former A1 Grand Prix and GP2 driver Armaan Ebrahim is the head of the team. Based in the metropolis of Pune on India’s west coast, he has a technical partnership with Prema Racing who have been multiple title contenders in every formula class imaginable. The Gadhoke family are the founders of Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited. Ameet Gadhoke, Navjeet Gadhoke and Teja Gadhoke are the owners of the Gadhoke Group which runs the company Roadway Solutions in India, a multi-billion dollar construction company.

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Regional Formula and Formula 4

Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited is very successful in the Formula Regional Middle East Championship. In 2022 and 2023, they captured the team title, as well as the drivers’ title with Arthur Leclerc, the younger brother of Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc, and Mercedes junior Andrea Kimi Antonelli. Apart from that, Ferrari junior James Wharton also became the world driver’s champion in the United Arab Emirates Formula 4 Championship with the Indian team earlier this month. Mumbai Falcons is also an official partner of the FIA ​​Karting World Championship in a number of events as well as the European Karting Championship.

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