{"id":36528,"date":"2026-08-14T11:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36528"},"modified":"2026-08-14T11:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:58:07","slug":"cadillac-f1-names-new-boss-at-midseason-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/cadillac-f1-names-new-boss-at-midseason-break","title":{"rendered":"Cadillac F1 names new boss at midseason break"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cWe’re at this inflection point with the summer break,\u201d said Towriss in a call with media Wednesday. \u201cCadillac has gone through this initial build phase . . . and now as we look at the development phase, there’s a real opportunity here to build something new. We’re delighted to welcome Martin to Cadillac Formula One (and) excited about what he brings to the table. This is the perfect time to make (a leadership) change as we go into the second half of our inaugural season (and) as we start to think about building the 2027 car.\u201d<\/p>\n

Budkowski replaces Graham Lowden, who did yeoman\u2019s work to get the F1 field\u2019s 11th team to grid in just 10 months after Cadillac received approval to race in 2025.<\/p>\n

Budkowski joins the team with more than two decades of F1 management experience, including senior roles with Ferrari, McLaren and Formula One\u2019s FIA organizing body. His most recent role was with Renault\/Alpine \u2014 another relatively new F1 team that joined the grid in 2021 \u2014 where he led the team’s transition as executive director and board member.<\/p>\n

“From the beginning, our goal has not been simply to participate in Formula 1, but to build a next-generation team capable of competing at the very front,\u201d said Towriss.<\/p>\n

After 11 grand prix, the team is stuck at the back of the field. Progress demanded more urgency when Aston Martin \u2014 which had been mired at the back of the fields with the two team Cadillacs \u2014 made big strides at the last Hungarian Grand Prix, leap-frogging Cadillac F1 into mid-field contention with a 12th<\/sup>\u00a0and 13th<\/sup>\u00a0place showing.<\/p>\n

Both Cadillac\u2019s meanwhile, failed to finish, the latest in a concerning bout of unreliability to go with the team\u2019s lack of pace.<\/p>\n

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Clive Rose, Getty Images \u201cWe’re at this inflection point with the summer break,\u201d said Towriss in a call with media Wednesday. \u201cCadillac has gone through this initial build phase . . . and now as we look at the development phase, there’s a real opportunity here to build something new. We’re delighted to welcome Martin […]<\/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\/36528"}],"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=36528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36529,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36528\/revisions\/36529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}