Sergio Perez has stated Cadillac has begun to \u201cexplore\u201d its car as it prepares to make its debut at the Australian Grand Prix next month.<\/p>\n
Cadillac was present in Barcelona earlier this week, where the American squad fielded its new car with Perez and Valtteri Bottas behind the wheel.<\/p>\n
Cadillac is expanding the grid to beyond 10 teams for the first time since 2016 this year, joining at the start of a new regulation cycle.<\/p>\n
It logged 164 laps at the shakedown – the second fewest, trailing only Aston Martin.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, Perez asserted it was a positive week for Cadillac.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a productive time in Barcelona completing a good amount of running across the three days with valuable information gathered,\u201d Perez said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a team, we\u2019re starting to explore the car, set-ups and the directions we want to be taking.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe point of this shakedown is to get more mileage to identify areas to improve that we can address before we go racing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cadillac will return to the track in Bahrain in just over one week for the second pre-season test of the year.<\/p>\n
Perez is expecting it to be a busy period for the team as it looks to put itself in the best shape possible for a successful F1 debut.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a lot of work ahead of us, especially being a new team, but it\u2019s an exciting time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really enjoying being back in a team, there\u2019s a great spirit here to move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergio Perez has stated Cadillac has begun to \u201cexplore\u201d its car as it prepares to make its debut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-448435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-calendar","13":"tag-f1-live","14":"tag-f1-results","15":"tag-f1-standings","16":"tag-ferrari","17":"tag-formula-1","18":"tag-formula1","19":"tag-lewis-hamilton","20":"tag-max-verstappen","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-racing","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}