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There’s nothing unusual about a team principal holding a press conference before the start of a new Formula 1 season. But this week, that team principal wasn’t preparing at team to race in Melbourn…
Graeme Lowdon was named as the first team principal of the new Cadillac F1 team late last year and started full-time in that role after the final race of 2024. Despite being the spokesperson and leader for the first new team in a decade, you wouldn’t have heard much from him prior to March. Cadillac felt the timing wasn’t right to go around publicly speaking about its planned entry in 2026 until it had official confirmation of its place on the grid. Formula One Management (FOM) had announced in November that it was working towards making that happen, and the FIA had already approved the team as an acceptable new entrant, but there were still further assessments that F1 wanted to do. Having completed the commercial and technical analysis it wanted in collaboration with Cadillac, F1 and the FIA formally approved the team’s place in the sport last Friday. And with that, the team can start telling its story.
