{"id":113877,"date":"2025-09-04T11:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/113877\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:50:09","slug":"cadillac-who-are-formula-1s-11th-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/113877\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadillac: Who are Formula 1’s 11th team?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cadillac will join Formula 1 in 2026 as the 11th team on the grid – but how much do we know about the newcomers?<\/p>\n

For starters, Graeme Lowdon – previously at the Virgin and Marussia F1 teams – will be team principal.<\/p>\n

There had been speculation former Red Bull boss Christian Horner was in the running for the role – but Cadillac CEO Dan Towriss moved to “shut down that rumour”.<\/p>\n

“Our support, belief, backing is 100% in Graeme Lowdon,” said Towriss, who is also owner of motorsport team Andretti Global.<\/p>\n

Cadillac will temporarily purchase and use power units from Ferrari, with General Motors approved by governing body the FIA to build and supply them from 2029.<\/p>\n

Their drivers are also known, with Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas<\/a> signed on multi-year deals.<\/p>\n

Perez and Bottas have 106 podium finishes between them but lost their seats at the end of the 2024 season.<\/p>\n

Responding to questions on why Cadillac had not opted for younger drivers, Lowdon said signing the experienced duo was a “bold sign of intent”.<\/p>\n

“Their leadership, feedback, race-hardened instincts and of course their speed will be invaluable as we bring this team to life, he said.<\/p>\n

IndyCar race winner Colton Herta, 25, has been named test driver for the team.<\/p>\n

The 2026 F1 season begins with the Australian Grand Prix on the weekend of March 6-8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cadillac will join Formula 1 in 2026 as the 11th team on the grid – but how much…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-113877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}