Overview
- Cadillac announced the immediate appointment of Marcin Budkowski as team principal, replacing Graeme Lowdon in a decision the team says reflects a planned move to a new performance-focused phase.
- CEO Dan Towriss told reporters the separation was not mutual and that he made the decision, a choice he framed as necessary to meet the owners’ higher performance ambitions.
- Reports and team comments point to persistent reliability failures, specifically recurring brake overheating and repeated suspension damage, as key operational problems that have stalled on-track progress.
- Budkowski, who has senior experience at Ferrari, McLaren, the FIA and Renault/Alpine, will lead the race operation at the Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort next weekend and will begin a short-term audit of factory and track processes.
- Cadillac currently runs Ferrari power units while building a Fishers, Indiana technology centre and planning a GM in-house power unit for 2029, and the leadership change aims to tighten coordination between Silverstone track operations, the developing Fishers campus and GM engineering resources.