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With investors racing to get into F1, the ten teams on the grid are now worth $3.6 billion on average, and the leaders of the pack even outpace some NFL and NBA franchises. When the news broke last week that Toto Wolff, the billionaire team principal of the Mercedes Formula 1 team, was in advanced talks to sell a minority stake to billionaire CrowdStrike cofounder George Kurtz, it was the clearest sign yet that the sport has found a new financial gear. The price in Wolff’s agreement—roughly $6 billion—is a 58% jump from Forbes’ valuation two years ago and places Mercedes among the world’s most valuable teams from any sport. The Silver Arrows now rank higher than eight franchises from the NFL, 24 from the NBA, 28 from MLB and all 32 in the NHL—not to mention every European soccer team besides Real Madrid and Manchester United. And Mercedes isn’t even sitting in Formula 1’s pole position. That would be Ferrari, the sport’s most storied team, which is worth $6.5 billion given its unique place in the sport, according to Forbes estimates. Across the grid, F1’s ten teams are all valued at $1.5 billion or more—a threshold cleared by only four organizations two years ago—and the average valuation has revved up to $3.6 billion, up 89% since 2023. That increase reflects the velocity in Formula 1’s business, with the ten teams’ average revenue reaching an estimated $430 million last year and continuing a multi-year stretch with double-digit compound annual growth rates. Mercedes’ series-best $799 million in 2024 revenue ranks tenth among the world’s sports teams during the equivalent season. But the accelerating valuations have more to do with the shift in profitability since the 2021 implementation of a cost cap. The system, which limits teams’ spending in many areas related…

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