{"id":633333,"date":"2026-04-28T04:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633333\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T04:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:03:09","slug":"see-inside-the-history-making-first-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633333\/","title":{"rendered":"See inside the history-making first race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\t\tCadillac Formula 1\u00ae Team: See inside the history-making first race<\/p>\n

2026-04-27<\/p>\n


<\/p>\n

You couldn\u2019t overstate how far the Cadillac Formula 1\u00ae Team has come. Call it miraculous, Herculean, or legendary: After just 366 days, the team transformed from an aspiration into a fully fledged racing outfit, placing two cars on the starting grid at F1\u00ae’s season opener in Australia.<\/p>\n

Even with promising signs along the journey, from initial simulations to the car\u2019s first shakedown in Silverstone<\/a>, the journey has been a nail-biter. But finally, the culmination of the team\u2019s work arrived Down Under in style, ready to race.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

This season finale of What Makes Fast takes you along for those nervy final moments ahead of the race itself. It makes for a sprawling, world-spanning journey, as the series’ hosts get an inside view of team operations in three separate locations \u2013 from the GM Motorsports Charlotte Technical Center, to the Silverstone race HQ<\/a>, and down to the track itself, where two drivers and the race team take to the starting grid on a history-making journey.<\/p>\n

Throughout the episode, we revisit some of the key protagonists, from test driver Simon Pagenaud, who pulls out an absolutely heroic effort in the race simulator<\/a>, to GM CEO Mary Barra, who was on the ground in Australia to celebrate the team\u2019s season opener.<\/p>\n

Every epic journey begins with those first steps, and What Makes Fast has had a rare look at every step along the way. Following a promising start to the season in Australia, it\u2019s clear the first race\u2014and the frenzied run up to it\u2014were indeedthe beginning of an incredible journey.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

You couldn\u2019t overstate how far the Cadillac Formula 1\u00ae Team has come. Call it miraculous, Herculean, or legendary: After just 366 days, the team transformed from an aspiration into a fully fledged racing outfit, placing two cars on the starting grid at F1\u00ae’s season opener in Australia.<\/p>\n

Even with promising signs along the journey, from initial simulations to the car\u2019s first shakedown in Silverstone<\/a>, the journey has been a nail-biter. But finally, the culmination of the team\u2019s work arrived Down Under in style, ready to race.<\/p>\n

&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

This season finale of What Makes Fast takes you along for those nervy final moments ahead of the race itself. It makes for a sprawling, world-spanning journey, as the series’ hosts get an inside view of team operations in three separate locations \u2013 from the GM Motorsports Charlotte Technical Center, to the Silverstone race HQ<\/a>, and down to the track itself, where two drivers and the race team take to the starting grid on a history-making journey.<\/p>\n

Throughout the episode, we revisit some of the key protagonists, from test driver Simon Pagenaud, who pulls out an absolutely heroic effort in the race simulator<\/a>, to GM CEO Mary Barra, who was on the ground in Australia to celebrate the team\u2019s season opener.<\/p>\n

Every epic journey begins with those first steps, and What Makes Fast has had a rare look at every step along the way. Following a promising start to the season in Australia, it\u2019s clear the first race\u2014and the frenzied run up to it\u2014were indeed the beginning of an incredible journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cadillac Formula 1\u00ae Team: See inside the history-making first race 2026-04-27 You couldn\u2019t overstate how far the Cadillac…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[43409,166424,22197,49,4228,48,569,6717,578,576,577,14230,166426,166427,140,12716,26617,82,61],"class_list":["post-633333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-43409","tag-all-new-releases","tag-brands","tag-ca","tag-cadillac","tag-canada","tag-culture","tag-english","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-gm","tag-gm-news","tag-hero-1","tag-innovation","tag-motorsports","tag-public","tag-sports","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633333","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=633333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}