GM announces Lowdon as Cadillac F1 team principal

The Cadillac Method 1 programme has named Graeme Lowdon as staff principal of the brand new staff forward of its entry in 2026.

The American model will be part of the grid for the brand new period of rules after a reworked package deal was introduced to F1 after greater than a 12 months of making an attempt to make it onto the scene. 

Lowdon, who previously served as CEO for the Virgin/Marussia/Manor F1 outfit and likewise took the Manor identify to the World Endurance Championship, has been given the staff principal function having helped lay the foundations of the championship’s eleventh staff.

The 59-year-old Briton was a part of the beforehand unsuccessful bid between GM and Andretti F1 headed by Michael Andretti, which was accepted by the governing physique the FIA however refused entry by F1 itself as a result of the bid wasn’t deemed so as to add sufficient worth to the sequence.

Andretti stepped again from the venture earlier this 12 months and ceded management to the bulk proprietor TWG World, with CEO  Dan Towriss largely accountable for the remodeling of GM’s proposals after taking on on the helm.

“I consider that Method 1 is the best staff sport on this planet, and groups are all about folks. This can be a staff with an actual love for, and want to go, racing, and now we have the expertise and experience to just do that,” stated Lowdon. 

“Racing is on the very coronary heart of every part that we do. That is what I need to see in a staff, and I actually need to be a part of it. I don’t underestimate the duty forward and I’ve the utmost respect for the competitors. I look ahead to the problem of racing. Within the meantime, our work continues at tempo.”

Company within the Kick Sauber F1 Group storage, together with Grame Lowdon, supervisor of Zhou Guanyu, Kick Sauber F1 Group

Photograph by: Andrew Ferraro/MSI

In addition to serving to to construct the Cadillac entry from the underside up, Lowdon has been within the F1 paddock as a part of Zhou Guanyu’s nearest circle.

Towriss famous that it was Lowdon’s time with the staff over the previous two years that had cemented his function on the prime: “His expertise on each the technical and managerial sides of Method 1 and different motorsports ventures will serve him properly as he builds the Cadillac Method 1 staff.”

On the function he has carried out with GM, president Mark Reuss stated: “Graeme has been a pleasure to work with over the previous two years and we’re excited he’ll lead our journey to the 2026 Method 1 grid as staff principal.

“He has nice racing experience, he is aware of find out how to assemble a high-performing staff and he embodies the values the Cadillac Method 1 Group will characterize in all its endeavors, on or off the observe.”

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