Overview
- Cadillac, which announced the change on Wednesday, replaced founding team principal Graeme Lowdon with Marcin Budkowski effective immediately.
- Budkowski is a veteran engineer and manager who has worked at Prost, Ferrari, McLaren, the FIA and Renault/Alpine and is being hired to tighten technical and decision-making processes.
- He will take charge of on-track operations at the first race after the summer break in Zandvoort and says his priority is aligning people, tools and information so race decisions are faster.
- The team has completed eleven races without scoring points and has suffered recurring reliability failures such as brake faults and suspension breakages, which Cadillac cites as a driver of the leadership change.
- Cadillac continues to finish its factories in Fishers and Silverstone, will run Ferrari power units for now, and plans for General Motors to develop its own F1 power unit by 2029, making improvements to reliability and factory output key near-term markers to watch.