<div id="readability-page-1">  <p><time datetime="2025-11-25T15:24:18+00:00">    Tuesday 25 November 2025 3:24 pm  </time></p>             <figure>    <div>       </div> <img width="742" height="495" src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://www.cityam.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2247864982-e1764083969872.jpg/query-dz03NDI?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg" original-src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://www.cityam.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2247864982-e1764083969872.jpg/query-dz03NDI"/>  <figcaption>Aston Martin F1 bosses are bullish about future team valuations</figcaption> </figure> <p>Formula 1 teams are on course to rival top US sports franchises as the most expensive in the world following a boom in valuations, says Aston Martin F1’s commercial chief Jefferson Slack.</p><p>This month’s sale of a minority stake in Mercedes F1 valued the team at $6bn (£4.6bn), while McLaren were valued at around $5bn (£3.8bn) following an investor reshuffle in September.</p><p>Those numbers are dwarfed by valuations of the biggest NFL and NBA teams, such as the Dallas Cowboys and Golden State Warriors, but the gap is closing and Slack believes it is a matter of time before the sports achieve parity.</p><p>“There’s still a revenue multiple arbitrage for F1 teams at five, six, seven [times], but NBA teams are 10 or 12 wide,” he told BlackBook Motorsport.</p><p>“There shouldn’t be big differences in that, so I think we can get more to that multiple. There’s no reason why we can’t be worth [as much as] an NFL team. I think Mercedes now is worth more than a few NFL teams, but that should be where we’re going.”</p><h2 id="h-liberty-credited-with-soaring-f1-valuations">Liberty credited with soaring F1 valuations</h2><p>Industry observers have predicted that the Mercedes and McLaren stake sales will lift the valuations of all teams on the grid and trigger more partial sell-offs. </p><p>Ferrari’s brand prestige makes it the most valuable F1 team, according to a recent ranking by Forbes, which estimated its worth $6.5bn (£4.9bn). The same outlet puts the top NFL and NBA teams at in excess of $10bn (£7.6bn). </p><p>F1’s growth follows years of global expansion married with strict cost controls under the ownership of Liberty Media. </p><p>“This is a sport where, 20 years ago, you’d pay $1 and then you’d lose a lot of money,” SLack added.</p><p>“It’s a testament to lots of things. Liberty has done an incredible job – the budget cap, Drive to Survive – all of these things that have come together that have made the sport valuable.”</p> </div>

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<p>阿斯頓馬丁 F1 的商業主管傑弗遜·斯萊克預測，一級方程式賽車隊的估值很快將與美國頂級體育特許經營權如 NBA 和 NFL 球隊相媲美。最近的銷售將梅賽德斯 F1 的估值定為 60 億美元，邁凱倫為 50 億美元，法拉利的估值約為 65 億美元。這一增長歸因於自由媒體的管理，包括成本控制和全球擴張。斯萊克認為，F1 車隊的估值可以與 NFL 球隊持平</p>

阿斯頓馬丁首席預測 F1 的估值將與 NBA 和 NFL 球隊相媲美