The president of General Motors, Mark Reusshas revealed a possible 5,000 million coup for tariffs introduced by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, but insists that It will not affect the Formula 1 Cadillac team.
After cutting its forecast of benefits due to uncertainty in the car industry caused by Trump’s tariffs, Reuss has affirmed that GM, the parent company of Cadillac, could be dedicated to a huge black hole as a result.
This uncertainty comes with Cadillac preparing its entry into F1 in 2026 and its own power units three years later. Meanwhile, The category itself continues to see what impact the global tariffs announced in April will have and subsequently postponed to a large extent.
However, Reuss insists that the team will not be affected. When asked if he would affect Cadillac, he replied: “No, it does not, it is an important question, we are working very hard.”
“These are long -term footprints that we have that are very old in some cases, that have been there for a long time, and that is why we are working to bring everything we can to the United States and avoid tariffs, but not at all costs and it does not happen overnight.”
“There is no switch that says: ‘Oh, suddenly we are free of tariffs.’ In the second case the impact for us is about 5,000 million dollars, but it will not affect this project“He said.
With Reuss surely – internally at least – Cadillac will not suffer the effects, The newcomer to the F1 has also received a lot of interest from possible sponsors and partners.
And TowrissExecutive Director of TWG Motorsports, the company that houses Cadillac Racing, told Motorsport.com during a round table at the Miami Grand Prix that having a starting partner is “part of the commercial strategy”, with McLaren as the only current team that does not have it.
When asked about whether American partners could be key, Towriss said: “Yes, but I think not exclusively. We certainly want to have American brands as anchors as part of our plan, but we are in a global scenario, so it is not a strategy only American.”
“There are many conversations in progress. Interest has also been enormous from that point of view and has been working hard on it. There have been many conversations during the weekend and we will have things to announce shortly, but I could not be more happy with the answer we are receiving in the Cadillac team of Formula 1,” he concluded.
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