Can Cadilac F1 learn anything from the early days of the red bull?

Cadilac announcement Sergio Perez And Vultiry botas Since its formula 1 driver was hanging in the air for several weeks, but became official on Tuesday.

This means that the F1 project of General Motors is taking size: Drivers are known, so there are three domestic basis (teams will work with fishers, charlot and silverstone in the United States and United Kingdom), and the Graeme Lowdon team is drawing wires as bosses.

On the latter, TWG Motorsports – who is running the Cadilac F1 team with General Motors – has revealed that there will be no changes in the future in the future. The name of Christian Horner was being mentioned, but on the presentation of Botas and Perez, TWG Motorsports Boss Dan Tyris announced that he was happy to reduce the rumor.

Toris expressed confidence in Lowdon and said Cadilac was not currently interested in capturing Horner. In a way, this is also clear, because the horns probably desire shares and the cadilac team is closed in terms of a large -scale financial structure – at least for now – with GM and TWG.

How Coulthard used his experiences and contacts in red bull

He said, Horner of course, co-founder red Bull F1 team. This formation was not a new entry like Cadilac, but handled an existing team with Jaguar. However, it was a team in the decline, which the challenge was almost as great as it is currently in Cadilac.

not surprisingly, David coolthard Earlier told this website that he and its manager Martin brandle Despite leaving Scott, nothing was seen in a step of Jaguar McLaren After the 2004 season: “I decided that I will not sign for Jaguar. I will leave Formula 1 instead of signing in with them.”

With the arrival of the vision of the red bull and especially the deitrich metschitz, Coolthard replaced, although it should be said that the driver with line-up DCChristian Clien and Vitantonio Louzi Perhaps the grid was not the most attractive at that time. Here you can find a similarity immediately, but also a difference with cadilac.

Like the Red Bull, Cadilac is now going to an experienced driver with a top team accessories in its backpack. For Coulthard, it was true about McLaren at that time, and also for botas and parez Mercedes And red bull. All these drivers know what to do to drive for a top team, and so what happens behind the curtain to reach there.

Red bull bets on two junior drivers for the second seat. Klein was already allowed to drive in Jaguar for a year and was 22 years old; Liuzi (which will run only four Grands Prix in 2005) was 24 at the beginning of that season.

It marks a difference with cadilac, which has ignored the miscreants over time, although philosophy is more important. For example, just before his red bull resignation, Horner revealed that he was given a clear message by Matschitz about the selection of the driver in the team’s build-up stage.

“I clearly remember that Detrich Mettschitz said ‘We don’t need the best driver if we don’t have the best car yet’. In that first phase, it was about the creation of the team.” In other words, the recruitment of a very expensive and inflammatory sharp driver cannot be a top priority if the car and the rest of the project is not yet at that level, regardless of the fact that you cannot get a star driver in any way. This was true for red bull and now it is definitely true for cadilac.

In the first phase, it is more important for drivers that can contribute to the creation of the team, as Coolthard had largely done in the Red Bull – especially when he attracted the top designer Adrian Navy. “David worked faster than Tinder these days! The match was a reality in a short time,” Hornner used to laugh at retrospect. “David installed a secret dinner in Bluebird in London with Adrian and his wife – because women eventually make all the decisions – and that is that we know each other.”

Coolthard experience in McLaren worked. “I worked with Adrian because I was a test driver Williams – At that time I was in my early twenty -seventh position. Then, of course, I also worked with him in McLaren. ,

The properties of the Navy were widely known in the padock, but it is not away from the fact that such contact and mutual relations are important in attracting the right people – with the mandate of the MetSachitz in the background.

“Ditrichch did not always say ‘yes’, when I made some suggestions, not, because it is part of the game. But the things you really believed and they were really important – not a powerpoint based, but pure passion and belief that someone can change the team – then he said nine times,” Okay, “for’ Okay,”.

Important difference from a crook

Perez and Botas will definitely, not be able to snatch big names such as the new, but their experiences and contacts in Padocks can help creating a new team. The overall picture has highlighted that in the initial stage, it only exceeds track performance.

Indeed, the difference during that build-up phase is also made in laying a good foundation for the future and attracting the right people. In that regard, an experienced driver can contribute to three potential ways: technical response to a car development, contact in the padock to contact the padock and finally, a look behind the curtain in top teams like Mercedes and Red Bull, gives them significant knowledge to improve the team in a long time.

It marks a significant difference from miscreants. Many drivers – including Max Verustapane – It turns out, looking at its first season, how different F1 is: much more travel, more media commitments, more engineer than junior classes and of course, much more pressure.

These are all things to use, which means that the miscreants are already full of their hands and they cannot see a big picture in their first year. For botas and parez, all these aspects – despite reservation about their net motion – are cut and dried, focusing on the creation of the team. Therefore the driver line-up of the cadilac may not be the most attractive, but it definitely makes sense.