After a protracted saga making an attempt to get onto the Formulation 1 grid, Common Motor’s entry has lastly been accepted. The Cadillac Formulation 1 workforce will enter the 2026 season because the eleventh workforce within the sequence. It will likely be the first-ever American F1 workforce as a ground-up effort from a significant American automaker.
GM has promised to provide its personal F1 engines by the top of the last decade, though initially it should use a powertrain from a separate workforce. It is unclear which workforce it is going to be, though Ferrari and Honda are rumored to be doubtless contenders.
The Detroit automaker’s preliminary efforts to get on the grid had been within the type of the Andretti-Cadillac workforce, and certainly it looks like Andretti World will nonetheless be part of the image, though maybe not in identify. It seems as if Michael Andretti stepped down because the CEO of Andretti World so as to get GM on the grid in 2026, with Dan Towriss changing into Andretti World’s new chief govt.
An official F1 press launch describing GM’s ascension to the F1 grid doesn’t point out the Andretti identify, however does quote Towriss because the “CEO of TWG World’s motorsport enterprise,” which simply so occurs to incorporate Andretti World. Cadillac, nevertheless, states that “Mario Andretti, the final American F1 Champion, will function a director on the workforce’s board.”
GM plans to make use of Andretti’s infrastructure in addition to its personal to assist the workforce, together with “operations in Fishers, Indiana; Charlotte, North Carolina; Warren, Michigan; and Silverstone, England.” So the partnership between Andretti and GM remains to be foundational to the challenge, however externally that will not appear clear.
Cadillac is the primary F1 workforce to hitch the game since 2016, when the one different American-owned workforce, Haas, was admitted to the grid.
