RacingNews365 revealed earlier this week that Valtteri Bottas<\/a> had signed with the squad, with the Finn also completing an F1 comeback.\u00a0<\/p>\nIt is expected that Cadillac will present both Bottas and Perez as its 2026 line-up as early as next week.<\/p>\n
Cadillac will join the field next season, marking the first campaign since 2016 that sees the grid expand beyond 10 teams.<\/p>\n
The official announcement of its driver line-up is set to come as the summer break winds down, allowing it to stick to its schedule quite reasonably.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At first, it declared it wished to announce a driver before the summer break, which was then later adjusted to halfway through the summer break.<\/p>\n
While the announcement is coming at the end of the shutdown period, it is in a position to reveal both drivers in one go.<\/p>\n
Despite the fact that other younger drivers were also in the running for the drives, the outfit led by Graeme Lowdon opted for experience.<\/p>\n
As well as the two having over 500 grand prix starts combined, Cadillac has committed to a race-winning line-up, as Bottas and Perez have 10 and six grand prix wins respectively.<\/p>\n
Like Bottas, Perez will also hope to start his integration with Cadillac through a TPC (testing of previous cars) as early as this year.<\/p>\n
This would involve Cadillac using an older Ferrari car ahead of the start of the Italian squad’s agreement to supply the American team with power units next year.<\/p>\n
Perez spent his last four years in F1 alongside Max Verstappen at Red Bull, who declared his desire to see the Mexican driver return earlier this year.<\/p>\n
“I always got along very well with Checo,\u201d\u00a0Verstappen said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAs long as he is motivated to drive, then I think that is absolutely, even with such a new team, a good choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause if you look at how Checo drove at Force India, Racing Point or whatever you called it, he always picked up the points anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tWhat other F1 seats are yet to be decided?<\/p>\n
With the Cadillac F1 seats filled, there are very few seats yet to be confirmed on next year’s grid.<\/p>\n
Mercedes is expected to announce George Russell and Kimi Antonelli in the near future, marking an unchanged line-up for the Brackley-based squad.<\/p>\n
After that, only the seats at the Red Bull stables and Alpine are yet to be announced.<\/p>\n
Alpine will likely be between Franco Colapinto and Jack Doohan, but at Red Bull, it is unclear who will drive alongside Max Verstappen in 2026.<\/p>\n
It is also uncertain if Arvid Lindblad will make his debut at Racing Bulls next year and it’s a situation that is not likely to be resolved anytime soon, as Red Bull take its time to decide on its 2026 line-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cadillac has signed a deal with Sergio Perez to bring the Mexican driver back to F1 next year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90945,"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":["post-90944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90944","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=90944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}