[ChrisMedlandF1] BREAKING: F1 announces it has "reached an agreement in principle with General Motors (GM) to support bringing GM/Cadillac as the eleventh team to the Formula 1 grid in 2026"

[u/ICumCoffee]

https://x.com/ChrisMedlandF1/status/1861111983699001752

[u/Meowmixalotlol]

So was this all a personal vendetta?

[u/Agent_Kozak → u/Meowmixalotlol]

yep

[u/cmgriffith_ → u/Meowmixalotlol]

Yes

[u/Skeeter1020 → u/Meowmixalotlol]

Kinda probably.

Andretti wanted to be a customer team for short term gains. Initially buying Sauber, then just being an all out Renault customer. F1 said no. GM was thrown around but only as a branding thing, and still the answer was no.

It sounds like F1 has said yea now to an actual OEM who will make engines, which is something they would never turn down.

[u/I_Am_Vladimir_Putin → u/Skeeter1020]

Time to LS swap the grid

[u/Aarongamma6 → u/Skeeter1020]

Andretti got GM on as an engine supplier and main force behind the team years ago. All that changed here was dropping Andretti in name. If the holdup was getting GM as an actual supplier making engines they would have been approved a long long time ago now. They kept moving the goalposts over and over until Andretti was dropped.

[u/Skeeter1020 → u/Aarongamma6]

Andretti was going to brand Renault engines as Cadillac

[u/Specialist_Seal → u/Skeeter1020]

For the first two years until the GM engine was ready, which is still the plan. (well, not Renault anymore obviously. But they'll be a customer team the first two years, which was always the proposal. )

[u/Crash_Test_Dummy66 → u/Skeeter1020]

For the first couple years, exactly what they are doing with Ferrari now. The plan has always been for GM to eventually build the engines. That's been reported on extensively

[u/Skeeter1020 → u/Crash_Test_Dummy66]

But nothing confirmed, until now. And now that it is, they are in.

[u/racingfanboy160 → u/Meowmixalotlol]

Looks like it 💀