Cadillac is contemplating as many as eight completely different drivers for the 2 new seats which can be created when the workforce joins Formula 1 subsequent yr.
Crew principal Graeme Lowden stated preliminary discussions are already underway with some drivers.
“We’re both planning or have spoken to in all probability seven or eight drivers altogether I might guess,” the Cadillac workforce boss told Speed City. “It’ll be no shock that anyone who has received current Components 1 expertise could be included in that record.
“However I might stress that in the mean time any discussions are very preliminary. They’re simply actually making an attempt to get to know what folks’s curiosity ranges are, what their motivations are, and that form of factor. So we’re definitely not in superior dialogue with any driver.”
Lowden admitted the workforce is “in a fortunate place” as a number of skilled, race-winning former Components 1 drivers left the sequence final yr, comparable to Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez.
“There’s a bunch of individuals with quite a lot of expertise,” he stated. “Not simply turn-up-and-drive skilled, individuals who’ve been at championship-winning groups, or race-winning or no matter.
“But in addition people who find themselves youthful who’ve received expertise as nicely, in order that’s one other angle. Additionally promising drivers who haven’t but had a grand prix expertise however they’ve confirmed themselves in junior components and junior classes as nicely.
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“So contemplating we weren’t capable of be energetic in that final driver market, we’re really in a fairly good place in the mean time by way of placing collectively a driver line-up for ’26.
“We’ve stated various instances the driving force line-up choice can be on benefit and I’m comfortable that the entire drivers that we’re having early discussions with are completely succesful Components 1 drivers and completely able to main a great skilled workforce.”
Cadillac would be the second American workforce on the grid subsequent yr along with Haas. Lowden stated the workforce is monitoring the progress of two American drivers in sequence outdoors F1: Colton Herta in IndyCar and Jak Crawford, who’s a part of Aston Martin’s younger driver programme, in Components 2.
“Colton’s clearly began the IndyCar season now. He was unfortunate within the first race, I might say, drove very nicely and completed fourth within the final race.
“Clearly we’re very to see how Jak goes in Components 2. The primary spherical in Melbourne was a bit disrupted.
“As we’ve stated earlier than, I feel everyone would anticipate a Components 1 workforce to rent their drivers on benefit and that’s what we’ll do. However as we regularly have stated earlier than there’s nothing that means that we’d have a number of drivers from the US at some stage.”
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