Ten Races Without a Point: A Tough Debut Season for Cadillac
With Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Pérez at the wheel, the new Cadillac team has yet to score after nearly ten races, raising real questions about the new project’s competitiveness.
The debut season of new team Cadillac in Formula 1 is proving far tougher than expected. With Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Pérez behind the wheel, the team still hasn’t managed to score a point after nearly ten races in the championship – a result that raises a genuine question about the new project’s real competitiveness.
Both drivers have repeatedly stressed that the car’s pace sometimes looks promising, including after a strong showing in testing at Zandvoort, but that the team still needs either to make a serious step forward in development, or to rely on luck and chaos in a race to reach its first points. Pérez described the situation as “encouraging,” despite the obvious disappointment at the lack of results so far.
For a new manufacturer in a sport known for extremely tight competition through the midfield, going scoreless after this many races is a sign that the first year will inevitably be devoted to learning rather than to results – no matter how strong and experienced the team’s driver line-up is.
