Cadillac are set to exhaust its quota of filming days to get on track before the second Formula 1 pre-season test in Bahrain.
The General-Motors backed outfit will enter its first-ever season in the sport this year, after getting the thumbs up to become F1’s 11th team mid-way last year.
The task to get its car ready for on-track action has been a documented, monumental task. But there’s still a long way to go for Cadillac.
The team debuted its 2026 challenger during a filming day in Silverstone before hitting the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya for the private shakedown in January.
While first impressions were positive for Cadillac – running during the entire allowed duration of three days – it is far from in-sync with its package.
The duo of Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas ran a grand total of 164 laps – the second-lowest tally out of the teams that were at Barcelona, minus Williams of course.
Naturally, there is still a lot of data and mileage that the team would want to log before the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in March.
All the teams still have two three-day pre-season events to do this, at Bahrain, in February.
But Cadillac will take to the Bahrain International Circuit 48 hours before any of its rivals do. The American outfit has elected to run a filming day at the Circuit.
As per the Sporting Regulations, teams are allowed to run two filming days during a season with its current cars for filming and promotional purposes.
That said, it gives the teams a very real opportunity to log essential data with respect to its cars. Cadillac will be looking to do exactly this as it looks catch up on the running it missed in Barcelona.
This would mean that Cadillac has officially exhausted its allocated filming days in search of mileage.
The team’s livery launch is slated to take place during a Super Bowl commercial on the 8th of February.
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