The primary Cadillac F1 automobile accomplished its first laps at a personal shakedown at Silverstone on 16 January with Mexican Perez behind the wheel.
On the opposite facet of the storage, Finland’s Bottas – who saved his finger on the F1 pulse as a reserve driver for Mercedes in 2025 – can also be counting all the way down to the subsequent chapter of his profession.
“For me, it is like a comeback,” Bottas stated in an unique interview for the F1: Again at Base podcast.
“I need to make it the perfect season I’ve had personally, after I take a look at my private outcomes. I actually need to minimise issues that I can really feel that I may have finished higher.
“I need to give all of it to myself, however to start with, to the crew. If I can end with a sense that there was nothing I may have tried tougher or may have finished higher, that is a very good aim.”
The arcs of Perez and Bottas’ F1 careers have adopted an identical trajectory. Perez made his debut for Sauber in 2011, two years earlier than Bottas made his bow with Williams. Each went on to play a giant half in profitable constructors’ world championships, Bottas contributing to 5 throughout his 5 seasons at Mercedes and Perez two throughout his four-year stint with Crimson Bull, which got here to an finish in 2024.
Cadillac’s new pairing will utilise all that have as they tackle an even bigger position to assist speed up the brand new crew’s progress.
“We have been principally by means of the entire paddock, we have finished all of it, we have seen all of it within the sport,” stated Perez. “So I feel now we have a terrific mixture of drivers.
“Beginning with a brand new crew, it is a totally different form of problem. Having the ability to be a part of constructing a brand new crew actually excited me about this venture.”
