Beginning with the 2026 racing season, the Cadillac F1 team will be the 11th organization on the grid, having finally been formally approved after years of fighting to make it happen. General Motors and TWG Global have now announced that Graeme Lowdon will join the team as its Team Principal, bringing his extensive open wheel racing experience to the Cadillac F1 outfit.
Lowdon will leave his current post at Kick Sauber at the end of the 2024 season, stepping away from his management role on China’s first fulltime F1 endeavor. It won’t be the first time Lowdon has been active service on the pit wall – he last held the post as Sporting Director for Manor Marussia to the Cadillac F1 team in 2015. In addition to his role at Kick Sauber, for the last two years, Lowdon has advised GM in its fight to get Cadillac onto the grid.
“I’m truly honored to be appointed as the Team Principal of this exciting new team and I would like to thank everyone involved for placing their trust in me,” Lowdon said in a statement. “I believe that Formula 1 is the greatest team sport in the world, and teams are all about people. This is a team with a real love for, and desire to go, racing, and we have the experience and expertise to do just that. Racing is at the very heart of everything that we do.”
Mark Reuss, GM President, welcomed Lowdon to the fold, saying, “Graeme has been a pleasure to work with over the past two years and we’re excited he will lead our journey to the 2026 Formula 1 grid as Team Principal. He has great racing expertise, he knows how to assemble a high-performing team, and he embodies the values the Cadillac Formula 1 Team will represent in all its endeavors, on or off the track.”
The Cadillac F1 team will use Ferrari built engines right out of the gate until GM begins building its own power units in 2028. The organization has not revealed its driver lineup, but is expected to tap Mick Schumacher as one of its racers.
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Nice. Sort of a relief it’s not Otmar Szafnauer like other rumors suggested.
How is it a Cadillac with a Ferrari engine? Once mighty General MOTORS can’t even build a motor on their own for F1.
Such a foolish waste of money. Cadillac supposedly is an all-electric brand too so why even enter Formula One at all. If they were to magically win, they’d do so with motivation provided by another carmaker. I understand why Sauber or Haas runs Ferrari engines but GM is a carmaker so they should build an engine or stay home till 2028.
I will never understand the minds running GM these days.
Tell us more about how you know nothing about the sport!
GM can build its own engine and chassis for F1, but these won’t matter. The only way GM is gonna win is to send a blank GM check signed by Mary B. to Max V.!!
What happen in 2015? Why Did GM leave F1 then?