{"id":142786,"date":"2025-09-14T14:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/142786\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:43:08","slug":"cadillac-boss-graeme-lowdon-on-the-teams-preparation-ahead-of-2026-debut-and-their-first-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/142786\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadillac boss Graeme Lowdon on the team\u2019s preparation ahead of 2026 debut and their \u2018first target\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Six months after getting the green light to enter Formula 1 and six months before their entry into the sport as the 11th team, things are starting to ramp up in a big way for the General Motors-backed Cadillac F1 Team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Starting a Formula 1 squad from scratch is no mean feat \u2013 but one of the very few people in the world who has experience in such a task happens to be the one charged with leading the new American project onto the grid next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Graeme Lowdon has immense experience in Formula 1, first with Marussia\/Manor as Sporting Director, then as part of the management team of <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoiWmhvdSBHdWFueXVfbGlua19jbGlja2VkIiwiY2xpY2tUZXh0Ijp0cnVlLCJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZm9ybXVsYTEuY29tL2VuL2xhdGVzdC90YWdzL3pob3UtZ3Vhbnl1LlBPTzlndFh3WFpjM3BjeGF4cVo4bCIsInBhdGhUeXBlIjoiaW50ZXJuYWwifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/tags\/zhou-guanyu.POO9gtXwXZc3pcxaxqZ8l\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zhou Guanyu<\/a>, China&#8217;s first F1 race driver. During that time, he was also an adviser to the project that has become the <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoiQ2FkaWxsYWNfbGlua19jbGlja2VkIiwiY2xpY2tUZXh0Ijp0cnVlLCJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZm9ybXVsYTEuY29tL2VuL2xhdGVzdC90YWdzL2NhZGlsbGFjLjFJejNyNHZRTTBsZ2d3TzlTVjZ5OW4iLCJwYXRoVHlwZSI6ImludGVybmFsIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/tags\/cadillac.1Iz3r4vQM0lggwO9SV6y9n\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cadillac<\/a> F1 entry and thus is already well embedded.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six months after getting the green light to enter Formula 1 and six months before their entry into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-142786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}