Overview
- Cadillac announced during the summer break that Graeme Lowdon, who built the team and led its entry to F1, was replaced as team principal by Marcin Budkowski, and CEO Dan Towriss said Lowdon was told on the morning of the public announcement.
- Budkowski brings decades of engineering and technical experience from Prost, Ferrari, McLaren, Alpine and the FIA and has begun meetings with partners at the Dutch Grand Prix, including Ferrari, to align short‑term supply and development plans.
- Team officials said the change was driven by a need for deeper technical leadership to speed car development and resolve repeated reliability faults, with reporting highlighting brake and other mechanical problems as likely factors.
- Drivers Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez praised Lowdon’s work putting Cadillac on the grid but described the dismissal as sudden, said they were given little notice, and offered cautious support for Budkowski with the view that 'time will tell.'
- Cadillac enters this leadership phase still scoreless in its debut season, and the new principal must balance immediate fixes with the team’s longer‑term ambition to become an engine supplier.