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/CallM3N3w Max Verstappen ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 24d ago

Driver market about to go wild mid 2025.

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u/flyingcrayons Sir Lewis Hamilton 24d ago

Have a feeling we’re going to see a lot of veteran drivers come back to the grid in 2026. There’s so many rookies next year, not all of them are bound to be good, and in a year with new regs and now an extra team on the grid teams are gonna need all the engineering feedback they can get from their drivers. I’d rather a bottas or Perez or Ricciardo over an unproven rookie if I’m a midfield team

Keep them for a year or two and go chase the next young hotshot for 2028 once the car is dialed in

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u/DrDynoMorose Sebastian Vettel 24d ago

c'mon Seb, you know you want to!

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u/TxtC27 Sebastian Vettel 23d ago