The new Fishers-based Cadillac F1 team officially announced its arrival over the weekend at a glitzy South Beach extravaganza packed with industry executives and influencers.
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Michael Andretti stepped aside from leading his Indianapolis-based racing company in September, so F1’s 11th team will be called Cadillac F1 and be run by new majority owners Dan Towriss and Mark Walter.
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General Motors said Tuesday it has registered with Formula One’s governing body to become an engine supplier starting in 2028 in what is seen as a huge boost to Michael Andretti’s bid to join the global motorsports series.
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General Motors plans to send a small group of executives to next week’s Las Vegas Grand Prix in hopes of jump-starting conversations with F1 and series owner Liberty Media about the Andretti application.
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Fishers-based Cadillac F1 is focused on showing progress made from race to race, and even though Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas finished near the bottom of the running order Sunday, it was still considered a successful day.
Cadillac F1 principal Graeme Lowdon said the race team earned its rivals’ respect and plans to build on a “really solid platform” for future success.
CEO Dan Towriss called the design — unveiled in a Super Bowl ad — “bold, modern and unmistakably American.”
Fishers-based Cadillac F1 is timing the reveal in a bid to build a fan base ahead of the team’s inaugural race in Melbourne, Australia, in March.
The son of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher is leaving Formula 1 for IndyCar after 43 career starts in F1.
The deal with Apple was praised by Dan Towriss, CEO of Indianapolis-based TWG Motorsports and the Cadillac Formula 1 team that will debut next season.
Mick Schumacher, the 26-year-old son of seven-time Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher, may be looking for a fresh start after his once-promising career got derailed in Europe.
The deal follows a June announcement in which Tommy Hilfiger, an American fashion brand, was named the official apparel partner for the Fishers-based team that will debut on the Formula 1 grid in 2026.
Four-time IndyCar champion Alex Palou wondered if the rumor was a deliberate attempt to cloud his dominating IndyCar season.
The new Cadillac Formula One team that will be headquartered in Fishers could bring with it more opportunities for high-tech companies to take root in the city that has made the business of technology a focus for more than a decade.
Cadillac F1, owned by General Motors and Indianapolis-based TWG Motorsports, anticipates being distinctively American, with the possibility of IndyCar driver Colton Herta in the two-car lineup.
Lowdon has been advising the effort the last two years as Michael Andretti tried to get an Andretti Global entry with General Motors accepted into F1.
Andretti has been sidelined from his namesake motorsports organization and won’t have any role with the Formula 1 program he spent the last four years desperately trying to launch.
With a restructuring at Indianapolis-based Andretti Global that pushed Michael Andretti into a smaller role, the chances of his organization landing a Formula 1 team have substantially increased.
Meridian, Colorado-based Liberty Media, owner of Formula One Group, rejected Indianapolis-based Andretti Global’s application in January after a six-month review.
The Detroit-based adversaries compete weekly in various other series, namely NASCAR, but Ford now wants an opportunity to go head-to-head with its technology against GM in the future.
Mere hours after Formula One’s chief technical officer said he was leaving after seven years in the role, Andretti Cadillac said it had hired him as its executive engineering consultant.
The junk email revelation came Friday as Indianapolis-based Andretti Global sought to clarify two points in the sharply critical document F1 released earlier this week in rejecting the Andretti Cadillac application for entry into the racing series.
F1 is only interested in allowing Indianapolis-based Andretti Global in when General Motors has an engine built for competition. Had Andretti received approval for a new team, it would have had to use another manufacturer’s engine until 2028.
Indianapolis-based Andretti Global and partner Cadillac must still prove their commercial value to F1 rights holder Liberty Media and the existing teams, which vehemently oppose expanding the 20-car grid.
