Valtteri Bottas is ready to drive the Ferrari 156/85 from the 1985 Components 1 season on the Adelaide Motorsport Competition forward of the 2026 F1 season.
The occasion, going down 28 February to 1 March, is every week earlier than the 2026 F1 season kicks off with the Australian Grand Prix.
Bottas shall be joined by former F1 driver Stefan Johansson, who will drive his personal No. 28 Ferrari 156/85 within the demonstration session. For followers attending the occasion, Bottas and Johansson will drive the Ferraris at 1:45pm on Sunday. Bottas can even drive a V8 Holden HQ Monaro for a separate demonstration run at 11:30am on the identical day.
This comes forward of Bottas’s return to a full-time racing seat within the championship. After failing to safe a contract for 2025, the Finnish driver returned to Mercedes as a reserve driver whereas he labored to discover a seat for 2026. It was later confirmed that the 36-year-old had signed with Cadillac alongside former Pink Bull driver Sergio Perez.
The American outfit will make its debut within the collection in 2026 because the eleventh staff on the grid. Its arrival coincides with the regulation modifications set to be launched, which embrace smaller, lighter automobiles with a 50/50 cut up between inner combustion engine and electrical energy. Sustainable gasoline can even be used, and DRS shall be changed by lively aerodynamics, amongst different modifications.Â
Stefan Johansson, Ferrari 156/85
Picture by: Rainer W. Schlegelmilch / Motorsport Pictures
“From the second I started talking with the Cadillac Components 1 Workforce, I felt one thing totally different – one thing formidable but additionally grounded,” Bottas stated of his upcoming transfer. “This isn’t only a racing mission; it’s a long-term imaginative and prescient.
“It is not daily that you simply get an opportunity to be a part of one thing being constructed from the bottom up and serving to form it into one thing that really belongs on the F1 grid.
“I’ve had the honour of working with among the finest groups on this planet, and I can already see the identical professionalism and starvation right here.
“That is an iconic model with an enormous legacy in American motorsport, and to be part of the story because it enters the world stage of F1 is extremely particular for me. I’m trying ahead to representing the American spirit of racing on the best circuits on this planet. I’d additionally prefer to thank Mercedes for his or her unwavering assist and sportsmanship in facilitating such an thrilling step.”
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