{"id":36111,"date":"2026-05-03T09:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36111"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:37:25","slug":"as-f1-drivers-blast-electrification-gms-barra-signals-flexibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/as-f1-drivers-blast-electrification-gms-barra-signals-flexibility","title":{"rendered":"As F1 drivers blast electrification, GM&#8217;s Barra signals flexibility"},"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\/02\/PDTN\/89909878007-miami-f-1-barracadillac.jpg?width=660&amp;height=372&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"At the ABX Miami Business Conference at the Miami GP, GM CEO Mary Barra introduces the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing F1 Collector Series 1.\" width=\"527\" height=\"297\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>At the ABX Miami Business Conference at the Miami GP, GM CEO Mary Barra introduces the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing F1 Collector Series 1.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Miami \u2014<\/em>\u00a0When General Motors Co. committed to join Formula One under its Cadillac flag in January 2023, it joined other luxury makers, including Mercedes, Audi and Aston Martin, enthusiastic about F1\u2019s development of a new, electrified, 50-50 hybrid V-6 powertrain to debut this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But drivers despise the new powertrain for its girth, complexity and safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cIt&#8217;s just destroying the racing,\u201d said Aston Martin\u2019s Lance Stroll, normally one of the paddock\u2019s most reticent drivers. \u201cWe\u2019re far away from proper F1 cars, and pushing flat out without thinking about batteries and all this stuff. I saw (onboard laps) from &#8230; the V-8 era and then what it looks like versus now &#8230; the character of the cars, and just how much more intense it looked, and how much more exciting it looked back then compared to now. I think that it&#8217;s sad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Stroll\u2019s comments are echoed by drivers up and down the pit lane who pine for the purity of past, nimble, V8-powered racers and express disdain for the electrified powertrain they&#8217;re using.<\/p>\n<p>Read full article here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the ABX Miami Business Conference at the Miami GP, GM CEO Mary Barra introduces the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing F1 Collector Series 1. Henry Payne, The Detroit News Miami \u2014\u00a0When General Motors Co. committed to join Formula One under its Cadillac flag in January 2023, it joined other luxury makers, including Mercedes, Audi and Aston [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36111"}],"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=36111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36112,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36111\/revisions\/36112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}