250 days to go - but how ready is Cadillac for its F1 debut?
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Cadillac will make its Formula 1 race debut in 250 days time, in next March’s Australian Grand Prix, but will it be ready? That’s the question we answer in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.
Special Guest Sahil Kapur, from NBC News, joins Ben Anderson and Edd Straw to explain the political machinations that led to the entry being granted earlier this year, and discuss whether the start-up team’s unique structure will work.
We then hear from team principal Graeme Lowdon, who talked to us when The Race paid a visit to Cadillac’s Silverstone facilities for a look around - and explains why he has no doubts that the car will be ready to go.
After that, we discuss potential drivers and the possible impact in America and also ask what is a realistic goal for the team in terms of its performance in 2026.
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| 1:22.5 | The race is on, and Cadillax Formula One W is fast approaching, but just how ready is the start-up team and what can we expect from it in its first season. |
| 1:34.5 | I'm Ed Straw and joining me to explore what will be one of the big stories of 2026 are Ben Anderson and special guest, Sahil Kapur. |
| 1:41.5 | And we'll also hear from Cadillac team principal, Graham Loudon. Well, as always great to welcome a new special guest to the show, and I'm delighted to welcome Sahil Kapur. Now, you are NBC new senior national political reporter in the United States, so it's probably worth you explaining what might be called your sideline in Formula One, and therefore, while you're here. Yeah, it's great to join you. I'm a long-time listener, a first-time guest. I have been covering |
| 2:05.6 | national politics, Congress and election in the US for NBC for about a decade and a half now since |
| 2:11.8 | graduating college, but for the last three years, I've also been covering F1. I got my bosses and, my bosses and my editors to recognize that there is a somewhat of a growing fan base, uh, for F1 in the U.S. And I've been, I've been into the sport since I was nine years old. Uh, my first season was watching, uh, Michael Schumacher crash into Jack Villeneuve, uh, for the, for the championship race, uh, back in, I think it was 1997. |
| 2:35.3 | Correct. |
| 2:36.9 | So, yeah, I guess that's my background. |
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