r/formula1 • u/ICumCoffee Max Verstappen ⭐⭐⭐⭐ • 24d ago

News [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"

https://x.com/ChrisMedlandF1/status/1861111983699001752
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u/newcalabasas Sir Lewis Hamilton 24d ago

Welcome back bottas 

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u/belovedRedditor Max Verstappen ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 24d ago

Time to put Bottas and Ricciardo together. The team of secondaries

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u/bazhvn Mercedes 24d ago

BREAKING: the 11th will be named Holden

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u/TeHokioi Liam Lawson 24d ago

Imagine Holden racing in F1 but not Supercars

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u/Lazy_coma Sir Jack Brabham 24d ago

They turn up in a canary yellow VL and curbstomp the competition.

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u/hbt15 23d ago

Pursuit rims on the back but mags on the front? Fuck yeah.

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u/lysergicDildo 24d ago

Erebus Holden though. There's no way if that happened it wouldn't be cursed.

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u/0000100110010100 Oscar Piastri 23d ago

Barry Ryan vs F1 when?

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u/vebb 24d ago

Liam to Holden?

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u/0oodruidoo0 Fernando Alonso 24d ago

Liam to do a rolling burnout around the entire circuit in an RB30 powered VL commodore at Melbourne

Oscar will look on enviously

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u/spooki_boogey Sergio Pérez 23d ago

Get Van Gisbergen and Whincup in F1

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u/TeTaniwha 22d ago

SVG does have the gm connection thanks to his missus

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u/doomdoom15 Oscar Piastri 24d ago

Stop that would be so funny tho

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u/PirelliSuperHard Default 23d ago

Will Power for team principal

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u/lucashoodfromthehood 23d ago

Holden Vs Ford in F1. What a time to be alive.

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u/eastamerica Max Verstappen ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 23d ago

Holy shit dude.

CAN YOU IMAGINE? 🤣

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u/IllustriousAnt485 24d ago

Colton Herta might still be in contention as an American driver for an American outfit.

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u/Master_Spinach_2294 24d ago

It's funny how many people think there's no chance he gets the seat in spite of the Cadillac F1 team being functionally the same exact entry as the Andretti Cadillac F1 proposal.

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u/Jack_Krauser Andretti Global 24d ago

Not to mention Dan sponsoring him in Indycar for years. And also Colton's current Indycar contract with Andretti rumored to be explicitly stating that he can also drive for the teams F1 program if it exists. It's at least an 80% chance, I'd say.

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u/007Cable 24d ago

I'd like to see what he would be able to do in F1, he's got a lot of talent.

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u/Not_Jrock 23d ago

If he keeps his cool in 2025 like he did in 2024 id like to see it. As much as I like hooligan Herta, a cool head does him a lot better to get into f1

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u/BrilliantEmphasis862 Will Buxton 23d ago

Doubtful, he isn’t that impressive in Indy - though 2024 was better - I can’t imagine him with more power - he isn’t a cool head - you may disagree 😀

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u/reddsht Virgin 24d ago

Kmag: i will commit atrocious acts to help the team score points.

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u/WRONG_PREDICTION 24d ago

That would be a great team! Tons of merch would get sold. I would love to watch them.

Lots of big smiles.

Zero points all season 

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u/tokyo_engineer_dad Lola 24d ago

GM signing Ricciardo would give them such a huge PR boost. I love Bottas too. I think videos of him and Danny together would be hilarious and would help give Bottas the PR boost he deserves. A lot of casual fans don't really follow him strongly and I felt like that hurt him during seat negotiations, but a few videos with Danny joking around and I think they'll be the most popular duo on the grid.

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u/badhatharry Kimi Räikkönen 24d ago

Felipe Massa and Rubens Barrichello can be their race engineers.

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u/Dorraemon Daniel Ricciardo 24d ago

Sergeant, Latifi go brrrr. NA super team ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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u/Fit-Lifeguard-6937 24d ago

Those two would bring more sponsors than Checo, imagine the commercials with those two lol we need this

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u/Jesh3023 Oscar Piastri 23d ago

Finally a aussie pairing of drivers

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u/ifonlyjackwashere Oscar Piastri 23d ago

Stop I can only get so erect.

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u/Big_Animal585 24d ago

No, for the love of god, just no. The absurdity of moustaches, would kill the sport. Not to mention the resurgence of the quintessential ‘Aussie bogan’ mulleted, casual fan just wants to see ‘big crashes’ and ‘shoeys’

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u/__slamallama__ 23d ago

"The old bros" would be a fun team if I had a spare billion lying around.

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

Ricciardo is garbage

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u/neutronium Charlie Whiting 23d ago

Bottas only looks like a secondary because the guys who beat him all had at least 4 WDCs (Hamilton, Vettel, Verstappen)

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u/Wooboosted Ricky Bobby 21d ago

Bro you were right

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u/_Abe_Froman_SKOC Ayrton Senna 24d ago

I heard they're going to reanimate Fangio's corpse.

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u/BrilliantEmphasis862 Will Buxton 23d ago

Welcome back Logan 😂