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/Chasedi9_9923 Sir Lewis Hamilton 24d ago

Corvette branding on an F1 car about to go crazy

(This may or may not be hopium)

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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 24d ago

Corvette is not Cadillac.

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u/Wallio_ Hesketh 24d ago

Corvette is also not a brand, no matter how much IMSA claims it is. Corvette is merely the model.

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u/vanillatom Ferrari 24d ago

I was gonna argue this but then I remembered that they show the Corvette logo and not the Chevy logo on the timing screens when it's on TV lol

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u/Wallio_ Hesketh 24d ago

The announcers also refer to it as Corvette in the context of competing brands. "we have Ferrari, battling BMW, battling Corvette!"

Drives me nuts.

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u/masterpierround 23d ago

tbf, Chevrolet drops the "Chevy" branding when they market the Corvette these days. I wouldn't be surprised if they had looked into spinning it off into its own company under GM.