Sergio Perez is again behind the wheel of a Components 1 automobile for the primary time in practically a yr for a two-day testing of earlier automobile (TPC) outing as Cadillac ramps up preparations for 2026.
Cadillac doesn’t have a automobile of its personal to check, however has reached an settlement with its energy unit provider Ferrari to have entry to a 2023-specification SF-23. The take a look at is happening at Imola and permits Cadillac the chance to coach its personal workforce members on a lot of methods in addition to perform race weekend simulations, with Perez driving for the primary time since his closing outing for Crimson Bull in December 2024.
“I believe it is nice to get the operating and in addition the timing works completely as a result of it is simply earlier than the January take a look at,” Perez instructed the official Components 1 web site. “On these two days, on the bodily facet, I need to see how a lot I’ve misplaced, the place I must work on. It’s going to give me an excellent information for the winter, to have the ability to deal with that stuff.
“Additionally it is an opportunity to start out working along with the workforce, with the engineers, with the mechanics and begin to communicate the identical language. It is positively a good time for us.”
The SF-23 is operating in an all-black livery slightly than the same old Ferrari crimson, with the FIA in attendance to make sure compliance as is commonplace with TPC operating. Cadillac is restricted within the information and telemetry it will possibly retrieve from the automobile, with a deal with coaching each Perez and Valtteri Bottas’ crews forward of 2026.
Cadillac take a look at driver Colton Herta has additionally been driving in Italy earlier this month, though his take a look at was in a earlier era Components 2 automobile at Monza forward of his transfer into the class in 2026.
