The Cadillac Formula 1 Team car has something in common with the brand’s most iconic models: Chrome bumpers.
The Cadillac Formula 1 Team’s race livery made its debut during a Super Bowl commercial that highlighted its asymmetrical black and white color scheme, but a closer look reveals the heritage styling touch.
While its front and rear wings are constructed from carbon fiber composites, their end plates have reflective silver covers, which create the effect of having chrome bumpers at each end, even if they are designed to break off with contact.
That’s not the case with the Halo safety bar that surrounds the cockpit, which also has a mirrored finish and a titanium core that makes it the strongest part on the car. It would definitely win a fight with the 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham’s bumpers.
The livery also incorporates the brand’s latest crest and the classic script Cadillac wordmark badge, along with a modern wordmark in a new Cadillac Gothic font on the rear wing.
The livery will be making its on-track debut at the first open Formula 1 pre-season test in Bahrain February 11-13 and again at a second test on February 18-20. That will be followed by the first race at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on March 7.
Cadillac is working toward becoming the first American full works team in Formula 1 when it begins using its own power units in 2029. Until then, it is a Ferrari customer team like its U.S. compatriots at the Haas F1 Team.
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