{"id":393428,"date":"2026-01-05T16:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/393428\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:06:09","slug":"zhou-guanyu-joins-cadillac-as-reserve-driver-for-their-debut-f1-season-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/393428\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhou Guanyu joins Cadillac as reserve driver for their debut F1 season in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zhou, who is managed by Cadillac team principal Graeme Lowdon, said: &#8220;This is one of the biggest and most exciting new projects that the sport has ever seen.\u2028<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have worked with both Graeme and Valtteri for many years in various capacities, so joining the team feels like rejoining family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lowdon said: &#8220;We wanted a candidate who had recent F1 driving experience, is prepared to work hard as part of a team and understands the challenges of developing a car throughout the season. Zhou fits the bill perfectly. He will be a great asset to us as we go racing in 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cadillac will use Ferrari engines until their own F1 engine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/c0lgl5302z5o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">designed at their in-house base at Charlotte in North Carolina,<\/a> is ready. The company, which is part of US car giant General Motors, has committed to this being in 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zhou, who is managed by Cadillac team principal Graeme Lowdon, said: &#8220;This is one of the biggest and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-393428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393428","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=393428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}