{"id":36109,"date":"2026-05-03T09:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36109"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:34:31","slug":"how-american-driver-herta-is-climbing-the-ladder-to-cadillac-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/how-american-driver-herta-is-climbing-the-ladder-to-cadillac-f1","title":{"rendered":"How American driver Herta is climbing the ladder to Cadillac F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/05\/01\/PDTN\/89885903007-herta-f-2-face.jpg?width=660&amp;height=347&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Ex-IndyCar America driver Colton Herta is competing for the Hitech Grand Prix team in Formula Two in 2026.\" width=\"548\" height=\"288\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>Ex-IndyCar America driver Colton Herta is competing for the Hitech Grand Prix team in Formula Two in 2026.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Hitech, Hitech<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Miami<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Cadillac F1 not only wants to win a Formula One World Championship, it wants an American driver to be at the wheel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">General Motors Co.\u2019s luxury brand is making its debut on American soil this weekend \u2014 and so is American F1 hopeful Colton Herta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Ex-IndyCar ace Herta, 26, is gaining his stripes in F1\u2019s feeder series, Formula Two, which has been moved to a U.S. track, the Miami International Autodrome, for the first time after the cancellation of its Bahrain event due to the Iran conflict. Herta has kept a low profile here this weekend with his UK-based Hitech Grand Prix F2 team \u2014 deferring media attention to Cadillac F1&#8217;s experienced duo of drivers, Sergio Pe\u0301rez of Mexico and Valtteri Bottas of Finland, and their historic debut.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/2026\/05\/01\/how-american-driver-herta-is-climbing-the-ladder-to-cadillac-f1\/89885686007\/\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-IndyCar America driver Colton Herta is competing for the Hitech Grand Prix team in Formula Two in 2026. Hitech, Hitech Miami\u00a0\u2014 Cadillac F1 not only wants to win a Formula One World Championship, it wants an American driver to be at the wheel. General Motors Co.\u2019s luxury brand is making its debut on American soil [&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\/36109"}],"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=36109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36110,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36109\/revisions\/36110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}