{"id":86872,"date":"2025-08-22T06:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/86872\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T06:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:46:09","slug":"who-should-cadillac-sign-as-team-mate-to-valtteri-bottas-for-the-2026-f1-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/86872\/","title":{"rendered":"Who should Cadillac sign as team-mate to Valtteri Bottas for the 2026 F1 season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cadillac has signed Valtteri Bottas to form the first half of its F1 driver line-up ahead of the American squad&#8217;s debut season in 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/cadillac-sign-first-f1-driver-for-2026-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">That news was broken by RacingNews365 and Formula.hu<\/a>. Now, as the motorsport world waits for the General Motors-backed project to formally announce the Finnish driver, who should be partnered with the 10-time grand prix winner.<\/p>\n<p>There is a plethora of options open to Cadillac. Will it look to add more experience to its fledgling team alongside the 35-year-old, or will it stump for youth to give its pairing a more balanced blend?<\/p>\n<p>There is plenty of proven F1 talent &#8211; young and older &#8211; available to the team, including some big names currently sitting on the sidelines, like Sergio Perez and Kevin Magnussen.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the latter is racing this year in endurance, would he welcome another comeback to the so-called pinnacle of motorsport?<\/p>\n<p>Then there are the tested, but not yet fully proven drivers, such as Mick Schumacher and Zhou Guanyu.<\/p>\n<p>Or, will Cadillac go for a complete unknown, be it a junior or reserve driver, like Jak Crawford, Alex Dunne or Felipe Drugovich, or even an IndyCar champion in Alex Palou?<\/p>\n<p>There is also Yuki Tsunoda as a viable option. His seat at Red Bull is not fully secure, and he is out of contract at the end of the current campaign anyway &#8211; would the Japanese driver relish a change or scenery?<\/p>\n<p>Let us know who you think Cadillac should sign for its second seat in the latest poll by RacingNews365, and let us know your thoughts in the comment section, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cadillac has signed Valtteri Bottas to form the first half of its F1 driver line-up ahead of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-86872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86872","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=86872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}