Ex-Manor boss to return to F1 as GM-Cadillac’s team principal
Graeme Lowdon will return as a team principꩵal for F1's 11th team in 2026.
General Motors and Cadillac has announced that former 🦋Manor boss ♏Graeme Lowdon will become team principal when the outfit enters F1 in 2026.
Lowdon, who was the president and sporting director of the Virgin Racing/Manor Marussia squad between 2010 and 2015, will serve as General Motorsꦕ-Cadillac team principal when the American car giant joins the grid as F1’s 11th team.
The 59-year-old Briton has been acting 𝕴as an advisor to the operation for the p👍ast two years.
“I’m truly honoured to be appointed as the Team Principal of this exciting new team and I would like to thank everyone involved for placing their trust in me,” Lowdon s🌜aid.
“I believe that Formula 1 is the greatest team sport in the 🐲world, and teams are all about people. This is a team with a real love for, and desire to go, racing, and we have the experience a🤡nd expertise to do just that.
“Racing is at the very heart of everything that we do. This is what I want to see in a team, and I♕ really want to be part of it. I don’t underestimate the task ahead and I have the utmost respect for the competition.
“I look forward to thౠe challenge of racing. In ♈the meantime, our work continues at pace.”
Dan Towriss, CEO of TWG Global’s motorsport business, said: "Graem🍬e has been advising our team for the last two years as we have built out our operations; his experience on both the technical and managerial sides of Formula 1 and other motorsports ventures will serve him well as he builds the Cadillac Formula 1 team.”
General Motors president Mark Reuss added: “Graeme has been a pleas🍸ure to work with over the past two years and we’re excited he will lead our joꦿurney to the 2026 Formula 1 grid as Team Principal.
“He has great racing expertise, he knows how to assemble a high-per🍒forming team and he embodies the values the Cadillac Formula 1 Team will represent in all its endeavors, on or off the track.”
Last week it was confirmed that an agreement in principle had been reached with F1 to make GM-Cadillac the first new team to enter the world championship since 2016𒁃.
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