Ahead of the Cadillac Formula 1 Team’s launch event on Saturday at the Miami Grand Prix, team principal Graeme Lowdon confirmed to The Athletic that the team has not signed any drivers as of Friday, and that no driver announcement will come this weekend.
His comments come in the wake of rumors that former Red Bull driver Sergio Pérez has already signed with the team. The Mexican driver, who lost his seat at Red Bull at the end of the 2024 season, told formula1.com in early April that he has given himself “at least six months to get all my options on the table.”
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“The reality is that we’ve got lots of parallel tracks that all need to come together for the first race in ‘26, and yes, of course, selecting the drivers is part of that,” Lowdon said on Friday, “but we’re in kind of in an interesting situation, timing wise, because we’re out with synchronization with the other teams.”
Lowdon made similar comments in a media session in March, just days after the FIA and F1 approved General Motors and TWG Motorsports’ application for Cadillac to join the grid in 2026 as the sport’s 11th team. Cadillac hadn’t been able to be involved in the driver market until it received that confirmation, Lowdon said then. But that left Cadillac in a tricky position because “certain drivers are tied up for certain periods,” Lowdon said.
While the 2026 drivers’ market isn’t set in stone, two seats are up for grabs at Cadillac, which could allow veterans like Pérez a way back onto the grid or bring in fresh talent with Jak Crawford or Colton Herta.
“We haven’t got drivers sat there saying, ‘Well, I might go to this team,’” Lowdon said Friday in Miami. “Every seat’s full, and we’ve got two, and it turns out everybody wants to drive a Cadillac. That’s the one thing that I have learned. And so my phone has become very busy.
“And so to some extent, we’re looking at everything we need to do. One of the key things we need to do is build the car for the driver to actually race.”
While drivers are part of the equation to get Cadillac up and running for its 2026 debut, “we kind of have a timeline for everything, and the driver announcement is not happening this weekend.”
Lowdon did admit that Cadillac does have the flexibility to get to know the potential drivers a bit more, gaining a better understanding of their commitment and motivation.
He added, “We want to hire drivers on merit, but we assess them on lots and lots and lots of different things, and we’re in a good position where we can take our time a little bit to do that.”
The team principal said there were six to 10 drivers on Cadillac’s radar who would be “very good additions to the team,” but he didn’t list names.
Top photo of Sergio Pérez: Mark Thompson/Getty Images
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