{"id":15696,"date":"2025-07-23T10:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T10:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/15696\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T10:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T10:09:11","slug":"cadillac-team-principal-graeme-lowdon-reveals-shortlist-of-drivers-including-mick-schumacher-valtteri-bottas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/15696\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadillac team principal Graeme Lowdon reveals shortlist of drivers including Mick Schumacher, Valtteri Bottas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mick Schumacher<\/a> could be set to make his return to the Formula 1<\/a> after a shortlist of drivers in contention for the sport’s latest expansion team Cadillac was revealed.<\/p>\n

Plans for next season are well underway across the grid for next season, with Cadillac<\/a> team principal Graeme Lowdon narrowing down his talent list to represent the team. <\/p>\n

Past drivers including Sergio Perez, Valtteri Bottas and Schumacher are all favourites to join Cadillac but the trio are not the only ones on the shortlist of drivers to join the team.<\/p>\n

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Rising talents including former F2 champion Felipe Drugovich, Mercedes reserve driver Fred Vesti and Red Bull academy driver Arvin Lindbald are also on the radar of Lowdon.<\/p>\n

Although, with several experienced stars fighting for a chance to prove themselves once again in the F1, it is set to be a tough race for many young stars.<\/p>\n

\"Mick<\/p>\n

Mick Schumacher of Alpine Endurance Team looks on.\u00a0LAT Images<\/p>\n

With the race beginning to narrow, Schumacher’s desire to return to the sport he once competed in has moved one step close to become a reality.<\/p>\n

Despite currently driving for Alpine in the World Endurance Championship, the son of F1 legend Michael Schumacher was confirmed to be in talks with Lowdon.<\/p>\n

“Mick is great,” Lowdon told Sky Deutschland.<\/p>\n

“He’s a very nice guy, I like him a lot. I’ve got to know him better now.<\/p>\n

“He’s still young, but he already has Formula 1 experience. Of course, that was a while ago, but he’s kept himself up to date.<\/p>\n

“He is no stranger to the team. He knows where we stand. There are some positive things to say about Mick. He is clearly one of the drivers on the list.<\/p>\n

“But, I should also say that the list is quite long.”<\/p>\n

Lowdon went on to confirm Perez is also in discussions for a seat along with Bottas.<\/p>\n

\"Cadillac<\/p>\n

Cadillac F1 Team Principal Graeme Lowdon.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

However, the new team principal reiterated that his driver selection will not be motivated by the hope for some to prove themselves once again on the big stage.<\/p>\n

“I’m less keen on people who kind of want to prove a personal point,” said Lowdon.<\/p>\n

“Everyone wants to prove something else again. I never look at that as the biggest motivator. Our team is not there as a vehicle for someone to prove a point.<\/p>\n

“Our team is there to provide a position on the pitch, if you like, for someone to prove what they can do for sure. But it’s not a vehicle to kind of show the world to prove a point or whatever.<\/p>\n

“Drivers are there to prove the best they possibly can for the team and they should be motivated for the team around them as well.”<\/p>\n

While Bottas and Perez are expected by many to land the vacant seats, it has been floated that Cadillac, a US-backed team, are interested in recruiting a homegrown racer.<\/p>\n

Lowdon confirmed such recruitment could take place at some stage in the team’s journey in F1. Although, an American driver would only be selected “on merit”.<\/p>\n

The idea of an American driver being selected was rejected by Guenther Steiner, who revealed his support for Schumacher, Perez and Bottas to join Cadillac. <\/p>\n

\"Valtteri<\/p>\n

Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez on the grid.\u00a0Formula 1 via Getty Images<\/p>\n

“I don’t think they’ll take an American driver because the risk is just too great,” he told RTL.<\/p>\n

“The guys have no experience in Formula 1 and then it can quickly backfire. That doesn’t help anyone.<\/p>\n

“Sergio Perez, Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu. All of them have experience in Formula 1. With Mick Schumacher, these are my four favourites.<\/p>\n

“I think Mick has a good chance,” Steiner continued.<\/p>\n

“Cadillac needs a driver with experience in Formula 1 and there are currently not many drivers who don’t have a job but have already driven Formula 1.<\/p>\n

“When he was a test driver at Mercedes, he didn’t race, but he learned a lot about a good big team.<\/p>\n

“This knowledge of how a successful team works could help Cadillac.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mick Schumacher could be set to make his return to the Formula 1 after a shortlist of drivers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-15696","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\/15696","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=15696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}