{"id":239963,"date":"2025-10-25T13:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239963\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T13:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:45:11","slug":"perez-to-drive-a-ferrari-f1-car-again-in-test-for-cadillac-next-month-%c2%b7-racefans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239963\/","title":{"rendered":"Perez to drive a Ferrari F1 car again in test for Cadillac next month \u00b7 RaceFans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sergio Perez<\/a> will drive a Ferrari Formula 1 car again, 14 years after his first run for the team, in a test for Cadillac next month.<\/p>\n

The former Ferrari Driver Academy member will take part in a two-day test for his new team Cadillac, which will join the grid in 2026. As Cadillac does not have a car of its own to use Ferrari, its power unit supplier, is providing one.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe gave two of our TPC [testing of previous cars] test days to Cadillac,\u201d said Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur yesterday. The test will take place at the Imola circuit which is less than 100 kilometres from Ferrari\u2019s factory.<\/p>\n

Perez, who left Red Bull at the end of last season, is the only one of Cadillac\u2019s race drivers who is not currently contracted to a team. His 2026 team mate Valtteri Bottas<\/a> is a reserve driver for Mercedes.<\/p>\n

Vasseur said the test will give Cadillac valuable experience of running an F1 garage and the systems it requires before pre-season testing begins at the Circuit de Catalunya<\/a> on January 26th.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe challenge for them is huge,\u201d he said. \u201cThe issue is not too much about the car, I would say. Strangely, it\u2019s more the logistics \u2013 the set-up of the garage, the infrastructure, the IT systems, and so on. I think it\u2019s a good test for them to put everything in place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perez originally tested for Ferrari<\/a> during his first season as a Formula 1 driver in 2011 when he raced for another of their customer teams, Sauber. He and fellow FDA member Jules Bianchi<\/a> drove Ferrari\u2019s 2009-specification F60 at their Fiorano test track.<\/p>\n

Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free<\/a><\/p>\n

F1 will hold three pre-season tests next year, comprising five days at the Circuit de Catalunya plus two three-day tests in Bahrain. The championship will begin in Melbourne with the first race on March 8th.<\/p>\n

Pictures: Perez\u2019s 2011 test for Ferrari<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\"Sergio<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tSergio Perez, Ferrari, Fiorano, 2011<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\"Sergio<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tSergio Perez, Ferrari, Fiorano, 2011<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\"Sergio<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tSergio Perez, Ferrari, Fiorano, 2011<\/p>\n

Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free<\/a><\/p>\n

Formula 1
\nBrowse all Formula 1 articles<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergio Perez will drive a Ferrari Formula 1 car again, 14 years after his first run for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,3550,817,826,813,816,2072,85],"class_list":["post-239963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cadillac","tag-f1","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sergio-perez","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239963","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=239963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}