Cadillac announced when it will carry out the break-in of the first car.

      These days Cadillac is working on a racetrack for the first time. In Imola, as part of preparations for its debut season, the team is conducting private tests with a 2023 Ferrari car driven by Sergio Pérez. Cadillac does not yet have its own car, but team principal Graham Loudon insists that its development is on schedule, and the new car will cover its first kilometres on track in early January during a filming day.

      "Everything is on schedule," Graham Loudon said during the round in São Paulo. "We will fire up the engine for the first time in less than 50 days, and the car will go on track for the first time in January next year. After that we will head to tests in Barcelona at the end of January.

      Time is the enemy in a project like this, because we know we must be ready to start in Melbourne in the first week of March 2026, and that deadline cannot be moved. We still have a lot to do, since only in March 2025 did we receive confirmation of our entry. So the timelines are very tight. During this time we had to not only assemble the car, but also design it, hire staff, build facilities — do everything. This is a serious challenge.

      The tasks we face are larger in scale than those of our rivals, because we need to do more in less time. If you add up the Formula 1 experience of all our employees, it amounts to thousands of years, but as a single team we have been working for less than a year.

      Therefore, the primary task is to get the team working as a cohesive unit. After that, regardless of where we start from, it will be important to progress quickly. That will be our goal."