{"id":275337,"date":"2025-07-19T18:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T18:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/275337\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T18:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T18:04:12","slug":"cadillac-boss-grilled-about-mega-swoop-for-max-verstappen-or-lando-norris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/275337\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadillac boss grilled about mega-swoop for Max Verstappen or Lando Norris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Cadillac hasn\u2019t completely ruled out the possibility of signing a star name to lead its Formula 1 entry in 2026.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Cadillac\u2019s 2026 line-up has been one of the main talking points in the last few months, with a number of drivers being linked to the programme.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">General Motors appears set to hire drivers with recent<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/f1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0F1<\/a>\u00a0experience, with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/f1\/racer\/13\/sergio-perez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Sergio Perez<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/f1\/racer\/2\/valtteri-bottas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Valtteri Bottas<\/a>\u00a0emerging as favourites in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Cadillac boss asked about Max Verstappen or Lando Norris    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xpb_1359131_hires.jpg\" alt=\"Graeme Lowdon, Cadillac\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Graeme Lowdon, Cadillac<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0XPB Images<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">However, when asked about the prospect of landing a marquee name such as<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/f1\/racer\/852\/max-verstappen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Max Verstappen<\/a> or<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/f1\/racer\/912058\/lando-norris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Lando Norris<\/a>, team principal Graeme Lowdon didn\u2019t dismiss the idea outright.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt&#8217;s my job to explore every single avenue, no matter what it is,\u201d he told the High Performance podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSo that&#8217;s kind of what we do. But everyone does that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;99.999% you never see the outcome, but you have always got to have conversations whenever they arise.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe have got a bit on just building the cars and stuff. I don&#8217;t spend my time chasing Formula 1 drivers all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Verstappen\u2019s future in F1 has remained a constant subject of speculation, and it remains to be seen whether he will commit to staying at Red Bull after the shock departure of team principal Christian Horner.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Norris, meanwhile, is unlikely to be looking elsewhere even if he is outgunned by his younger teammate Oscar Piastri in the title race this year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Such a high-profile signing may only be possible further down the line once Cadillac has established itself as a genuine contender.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our F1 Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cadillac hasn\u2019t completely ruled out the possibility of signing a star name to lead its Formula 1 entry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,1711,1073,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-275337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-lando-norris","12":"tag-max-verstappen","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114881223997391748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}