US EditionPérez And Bottas Reportedly Drivers For New Cadillac F1 Team
Cadillac F1's 2026 lineup features Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez, combining over 500 Grand Prix starts to bring proven race-winning expertise to the new team.
- With next year approaching, Cadillac F1 has settled on Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez as its driver pairing, with reports saying confirmation could come next week.
- A late-July stakeholders' meeting determined Cadillac F1 favoured experienced drivers, reversing early doubts about a 35-year-old return soon for its 2026 debut.
- Valtteri Bottas brings 10 wins and 246 F1 starts, serving as Mercedes' reserve this year, while Sergio Perez is a six-time grand prix winner with 281 races; next year will be their first season as teammates.
- Cadillac will enter next year as a Ferrari customer team, and the veteran pairing with over 500 Grand Prix starts should help manage inaugural-season struggles from the back of the grid, while General Motors plans to field engines in 2029.
- Several younger drivers consequently missed out as Cadillac chose experience, ending Mick Schumacher's F1 return hopes and sidelining Jak Crawford, Colton Herta, and Felipe Drugovich next year.
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Mexico City.- Cadillac will not have to choose between Sergio Pérez or Valtteri Bottas, they will have them both. According to sites like RacingNews365 and Formula.hu. the US team, which will enter the F1 the following year, will announce at the end of this month both the Mexican and Finnish rider to close the months of rumors. Despite speculation that Czech and Bottas were fighting each other for a seat in Cadillac to return to Formula One, the…
The Mexican driver signed a multi-year agreement and will be a partner of Valtteri Bottas in the new team, according to ESPN
Never Give Up! While Formula 1 takes a break from ‘Gran Circo’, the strategies within the new Cadillac team began to move, possibly bringing Sergio ‘Checo’ Pérez’’s confirmation as a pilot. For no one it is news that Antonio Pérez Garibay’s son is one of the athletes considered to sign with Cadillac — a team that joined the F1 in 2026 — since even Graem Lowdon, the team leader, said that ‘Checo’ is a good candidate thanks to his experience.
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