When brand-new entrant Cadillac started its search for a race team manager, still a full year removed from joining the 2026 Formula 1 grid, it didn’t have to look very long, or far, to identify the right target.
Over at Haas, F1’s previous start-up team in 2016, long serving team manager Peter Crolla had been looking for a new challenge, and the prospect of another chance to build a team from the ground up was ticking all the right boxes.
Following early conversations with Graeme Lowdon, who was recently replaced by Marcin Budkowski as team principal but had been the driving force behind Cadillac’s respectable F
