{"id":671145,"date":"2026-05-15T12:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671145\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:37:13","slug":"dan-towriss-says-those-saying-cadillac-are-backmarkers-dont-know-anything-about-formula-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671145\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Towriss says those saying Cadillac are backmarkers don’t know anything about Formula 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cadillac Formula 1 Team CEO Dan Towriss insists his team have exceeded expectations since joining the sport’s grid in 2026.Cadillac have built a team from scratch, sourcing power units from Ferrari, and while they have managed to finish races so far, they have always been lapped and still require a lot of improvement as they are almost three to four seconds off the pace despite a major upgrade in Miami<\/a> delivering some progress.However, from his point of view, Towriss believes Cadillac are doing a good job so far; he told Formula 1’s official website<\/a>:\u00a0“When you think about short-, medium-, and long-term goals, I think we’re on track.<\/p>\n

“I think we’re ahead of the short-term goals, but we want to make sure we’re on track with the medium-term goals.<\/p>\n

“Certainly the long-term goals are quite ambitious in Formula 1,” he claimed. “If you think about it, there are so many work streams that are happening at the same time, from a real estate project to building a team to recruiting to building out all the pieces in the organization to tracking parts in a multicontinental effort with races all over the world. A lot of moving parts here\u2014and I’m really happy with how it’s all coming together.”<\/p>\n

It’s all about progress\"perez<\/p>\n

Towriss understands the time and effort required to succeed in F1. He continued:\u00a0“There are a lot of things we have in future plans, but everything is a process.<\/p>\n

“It doesn’t happen overnight, especially when you’re starting from scratch. It takes time. We’re excited about those plans.<\/p>\n

“A lot of build-up and a lot of great feeling about getting to track and exceeding expectations\u2014but that all evaporated once the lights went out in Melbourne. It’s so intensively competitive.<\/p>\n

“Now it’s all about progress, progress, progress,” he insisted. “There is not a moment to sit back and feel good about things. It’s all about: How do we get better? How do we grow this team and compete with more and more cars on track on a race weekend?”<\/p>\n

Formula 1 a really hard sport\"Valtteri<\/p>\n

Towriss also acknowledged how ruthless the competition in F1 is and insisted Cadillac’s low position in the pecking order reflects that and not underperformance by the team.<\/p>\n

He explained: “Just seeing the way the team fits in and the respect that we have earned in the paddock with the performance we have brought so far, I think we did exceed a lot of expectations.<\/p>\n

“To those who said, ‘You’re a backmarker,’ I’m saying you don’t know much about Formula 1. What this team has been able to achieve in such a short space of time is truly incredible.<\/p>\n

“As everyone knows, it’s a really hard sport. It’s the pinnacle of motorsport. What we have been able to build is great.<\/p>\n

“Now it’s just how do we take that and continue to build and make the learning curve and trajectory of progress as steep as possible,” Towriss concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cadillac Formula 1 Team CEO Dan Towriss insists his team have exceeded expectations since joining the sport’s grid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,4228,78198,57159,48,578,28673,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-671145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-cadillac","tag-cadillac-f1","tag-cadillac-formula-1-team","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-f1-news","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671145","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=671145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}