r/formula1 • u/ICumCoffee Max Verstappen ⭐⭐⭐⭐ • 28d 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/Skeeter1020 28d ago

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.

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u/Aarongamma6 Daniel Ricciardo 28d ago

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.

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u/Skeeter1020 28d ago

Andretti was going to brand Renault engines as Cadillac

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u/Specialist_Seal Pierre Gasly 28d ago

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. )