Cadillac Formula 1 Team Principal Graeme Lowdon offered an update on the progress of the team's first single-seater, which will compete in the 2026 Championship.
Cadillac have recently signed up Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas to spearhead their first campaign in the top flight, a choice that clearly reflects the new team's requirement for experience, while they hired American Colton Herta as their test driver.
Cadillac's first F1 challenger should be ready in January for a first shakedown in Silverstone while they take part in the first of three pre-season tests in 2026 later in that month, a closed test, before heading to the second and third pre-season tests in Bahrain.
Being a new team and with their main facility in Fishers, Indiana, still under construction, Cadillac will source their power unit from Ferrari along with the gearbox, as their own power unit will make its debut in 2029.
The team still face numerous challenges in terms of building their car and sourcing materials and parts, with the bulk of the work now being done in their UK base just outside Silverstone.
But despite all that, Lowdon is adamant his team are on schedule building the first-ever Cadillac F1 car, which is built to the new 2026 F1 regulations.
He said: "The good news is it is coming along. It's on schedule. We are currently laying up the first two race chassis.
"We built a prototype chassis some time ago, and we use that chassis to do all of the equivalent FIA homologation tests. So, there's some very onerous squeeze tests and also the rather dramatic impact tests, which is quite a significant test.
"We've already built the prototype, went through all those tests. We are probably the first team that has done as well, because obviously the other teams have got learnings from their '25 cars and '24 cars and everything.
"We wanted to do that to give ourselves confidence that when we're building the race chassis, we've got a high degree of confidence that we should pass the homologation tests.
"But now we're actually laying up the actual race chassis, and it's on schedule, and it's really cool to see," Lowdon concluded.
(Quotes from Formula 1 Official Website)
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