{"id":508166,"date":"2026-02-27T19:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508166\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:43:10","slug":"cadillac-names-its-first-f1-car-after-andretti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508166\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadillac names its first F1 car after Andretti"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cadillac’s first Formula 1 chassis will be designated MAC-26, as a tribute to its ambassador, Mario Andretti.<\/p>\n

The 1978 world champion Andretti was a key driver of Cadillac’s long-running bid to join the F1 grid as all 11th team, along with his son Michael, who initially spearheaded the project.<\/p>\n

Michael was shuffled out of the entry that F1 eventually approved, as was the Andretti name, but Mario has remained an ambassador for the team.<\/p>\n

Now, ahead of Mario’s 86th birthday on February 28, Cadillac has revealed its first F1 chassis will pay tribute to him.<\/p>\n

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The MAC-26 – or Mario Andretti Cadillac 26 – honours “Andretti and his lasting influence on the team’s formation and competitive ambition”.<\/p>\n

Andretti called it the “ultimate compliment that Cadillac sees those years as meaningful and worthy of recording with this honour”.<\/p>\n

“I cherish the opportunity that it gives me to have a lasting bond with F1 and am genuinely appreciative of everyone who continues to acknowledge my part in racing history.”<\/p>\n

Cadillac team principal Graeme Lowdon called Andretti “an incredible man with a gentle heart”.<\/p>\n

Lowdon added: “At the start of my own journey with the team, he asked me not to let him down – I hope that he will be proud to see the Cadillac Formula 1 car bearing his name finally take to the grid.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cadillac’s first Formula 1 chassis will be designated MAC-26, as a tribute to its ambassador, Mario Andretti. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-508166","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\/508166","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=508166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}