Everyone has an opinion. It can actually be quite wearing as they come at you from everywhere – a sensation Cadillac Formula 1 team principal Graeme Lowdon and his boss, TWG Motorsports CEO Dan Towriss, no doubt felt as they mopped their fevered brows after announcing their F1 drivers for 2026.

Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez are safe-ish choices. How safe depends on your perspective. There are those who say the Cadillac driver line-up is merely uninspiring, and driven too much by commercial considerations such as the Latin American car market. And of course there has been the usual chest-beating about all those young drivers being denied opportunities by the fossils.

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