Overview
- Cadillac replaced inaugural team principal Graeme Lowdon in mid-August and installed Marcin Budkowski as team principal in a decision taken by CEO Dan Towriss.
- Towriss says the change was planned to speed a shift from infrastructure building to on-track performance and to avoid a drawn-out public transition that could destabilize the team.
- Budkowski is a 49-year-old engineer with two decades of F1 experience at Ferrari, McLaren, the FIA and Renault-Alpine who says he will first listen and observe in the factory to understand workflows.
- The team enters the reset still scoreless after 11 races and facing repeated retirements and reliability failures, so immediate tests will be whether process fixes cut failures and improve race results.
- Cadillac will lean on strong financial and technical backing from General Motors and TWG Group and plans to link UK trackside operations with growing US engineering resources while exploring tools such as AI.