{"id":36097,"date":"2026-04-30T09:17:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36097"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:17:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:17:01","slug":"miami-f1-preview-cadillac-ford-square-off-amid-series-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/miami-f1-preview-cadillac-ford-square-off-amid-series-turmoil","title":{"rendered":"Miami F1 preview: Cadillac, Ford square off amid series turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/04\/29\/PDTN\/89858820007-miami-f-1-cadillaclivery.jpg?width=660&amp;height=372&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Cadillac F1 stars and stripes livery for 2026 Miami GP.\" width=\"529\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>Cadillac F1 stars and stripes livery for 2026 Miami GP.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>GM, GM<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Miami \u2014<\/em>\u00a0Cadillac F1 and Ford Racing square off on American soil this weekend at the Miami Grand Prix, Formula One\u2019s first of three U.S. events in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The historic clash of Detroit-backed teams comes as F1, the world\u2019s premier open-wheel motorsport, struggles to transition to the new 50-50 hybrid powertrain that attracted investment from the Motown brands. Following chaotic opening races in Australia, China and Japan, the series faced an open revolt from drivers and fans over the new, electrified technology\u2019s competitiveness and safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After the Iran war precipitated the cancellation of F1\u2019s twin Mideast April events \u2014 the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grand Prix \u2014 the month off allowed the sport to regroup with technical changes as it heads to Miami and May. Host venue? The Miami Dolphins\u2019 Hard Rock Stadium, owned by another Michiganian giant, billionaire developer Stephen Ross.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/2026\/04\/29\/miami-f1-preview-cadillac-ford-square-off-amid-series-turmoil\/89840044007\/\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cadillac F1 stars and stripes livery for 2026 Miami GP. GM, GM Miami \u2014\u00a0Cadillac F1 and Ford Racing square off on American soil this weekend at the Miami Grand Prix, Formula One\u2019s first of three U.S. events in 2026. The historic clash of Detroit-backed teams comes as F1, the world\u2019s premier open-wheel motorsport, struggles to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36098,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36097\/revisions\/36098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}