Graeme Lowdon, the ex-F1 crew boss for the now-defunct Manor crew, has been employed as Cadillac F1’s crew principal, the crew introduced Thursday. Lowdon has spent the previous two years as a crew advisor, serving to present and former crew CEO’s Dan Towriss and Michael Andretti rent and mould the crew that may work from Fishers, Ind.; Warren, Mich.; Charlotte, N.C.; and Silverstone, England.
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On the time of the crew’s preliminary denial for entry by Method One Administration in January of this 12 months, it had made roughly 120 hires. It now reportedly has just below 300 folks engaged on the enlargement effort — a quantity nicely below half the dimensions of F1’s longest tenured groups.
“I’m actually honored to be appointed because the crew principal of this thrilling new crew and I wish to thank everybody concerned for putting their belief in me,” Lowdon mentioned in a launch. “I imagine that Method 1 is the best crew sport on this planet, and groups are all about folks. This can be a crew with an actual love for, and need to go, racing, and we’ve got the expertise and experience to do exactly that.
“Racing is on the very coronary heart of all the pieces that we do. That is what I wish to see in a crew, and I actually wish to be a part of it. I don’t underestimate the duty forward, and I’ve the utmost respect for the competitors. I stay up for the problem of racing. Within the meantime, our work continues at tempo.”
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Added Towriss, who final week was named the CEO of TWG World’s motorsports division, which owns all of Andretti World’s properties (together with Wayne Taylor Racing) and owns a stake in Spire’s NASCAR crew: “Graeme has been advising our crew for the final two years as we’ve got constructed out our operations; his expertise on each the technical and managerial sides of Method 1 and different motorsports ventures will serve him nicely as he builds the Cadillac Method 1 crew.”
Lowdon joins a listing of publicized Cadillac F1 hires made since Andretti added Common Motors to its F1 aspirations that features:
, chief working officer (who labored as Alpine’s operations director in addition to its chief engine tech
, govt engineering advisor (who beforehand served as technical director for the Benetton, Renault and Williams F1 groups in addition to the collection at-large)
, technical director (who held engineering and technical director roles for the Arrows and Renault F1 groups, in addition to the Mercedes and McLaren Method E groups)
, head of aerodynamics (who labored in aerodynamics for the Jordan, Renault and Williams F1 groups, in addition to the Mercedes Method E crew)
, chief designer (who labored in the same position with the Jordan and Marussia F1 groups)
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at its Indianapolis store the brand new chief efficiency officer of TWG World’s motorsports division Doug Duchardt, in addition to new TWG World motorsports chief operations officer Jill Gregory, who can even function Andretti World’s crew president.
As Andretti World’s new sprawling race store nears completion, with a focused early-March 2025 grand-opening, TWG World is predicted to formally roll-out additional crew branding and management updates within the coming weeks.
Final week, that pending a correct 2025 IndyCar championship end that might qualify him for an F1 tremendous license, for its 2026 F1 grid debut.
