It has been reported that Cadillac has signed former Audi Formula Racing chief executive Adam Baker.<\/p>\n
According to Motorsport Magazin, Baker has been signed by F1’s newest outfit and will become the chief operating officer of Cadillac’s engine factory.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cadillac will enter F1 next season as a Ferrari customer team, and will run power units supplied by the Scuderia until at least the end of the 2028 campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The current plan for the American squad is to become its own powertrain supplier from 2029, becoming a full factory F1 team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Next year, Cadillac will open an F1 engine factory near General Motors’ Technical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n
Baker will be responsible for building Cadillac’s engine department, and will meet Russ O’Blenes, General Motors’ Performance Power Units CEO, in Charlotte.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the publication, it remains unclear whether Cadillac will develop a powertrain for the current regulations or prepare for a potential switch to V10s or V8s.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The new power unit regulations are set to run until 2030, although talks are reportedly under way for an early change.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Should the new regulations remain in place for the full cycle, it is already being questioned if it is profitable for Cadillac to design an engine for just two seasons; however, a major reason behind it’s acceptance onto the grid was its promise to become an OEM.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Regardless of the decision made by Cadillac and no matter what changes F1 makes to the new regulations, Baker is a key signing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Baker previously worked at the FIA as its safety director, but moved to Audi before its own F1 project was approved.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was responsible for setting up the German manufacturer’s engine department, but left by ‘mutual consent’ in May earlier this year after Mattia Binotto took over the whole Audi F1 project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been reported that Cadillac has signed former Audi Formula Racing chief executive Adam Baker. According to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-176139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176139","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=176139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}