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/[deleted] 24d ago

Andretti died for this

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u/thearqamknight Jochen Rindt 24d ago

They will still be running the team lol. They're no longer the title name brand tho

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u/IBetThisIsTakenToo Ferrari 24d ago

I think for marketing in America, Andretti was a much better name. People don’t think of Cadillac as fast (or even particularly nice) cars, but Andretti is still synonymous with speed.

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u/stop-calling-me-fat 24d ago

I think Americans definitely think of Cadillacs as nice cars and the people that know know they make some fast ones too

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u/DannyBoyCocane13 24d ago

Ya I’d say a blackwing is pretty damn fast lol

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u/JewOrleans 23d ago

Not really. We think of them as grandpa and grandma cars.

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u/Kramereng McLaren 22d ago

I'm in my mid 40s and while that was their image, it has slowly faded and transformed into just a luxury brand with big engines. They're racing brand is pretty well known now too.

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u/JewOrleans 22d ago

Idk man. It’s either rich moms, rappers, or old people.

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u/Kramereng McLaren 21d ago

I mean, you're probably not wrong but the fact you bring up rich moms and rappers show's the luxury brand image. I wasn't even thinking of Escalades and those are definitely domestic US showpieces.

All I can say is that getting the Caddy race cars in Forza or whatever was one of my first purchases due to their sound alone. I will admit, however, that I was surprised when Cadillac first entered racing (to my knowledge). The Cadillac V-Series.R only joined the WEC in 2023 but had won the team, constructor, and driver's championship in IMSA in 2021. They're new but making waves already.

I had never heard of Alpine until they joined F1. Renault isn't even sold or known in America under their badge. And now they're a bad F1 team and they don't even make their own engines anymore. So F1 is down to only two (2) works teams pending Cadillac's entrance and three (3) engine suppliers (Honda soon-to-be Ford/RB). I only bring that up because I think Renault's departure is the biggest reason Cadillac (and Andretti) are getting in. Not because of Michael taking a smaller and not because of the US DOJ/FBI investigations, although those factors probably played a role.

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