Formula One will expand to 11 teams with the addition of the Cadillac team in 2026. It's the first time General Motors will compete in the Formula One World Championship.

Cadillac’s Formula 1 program has received a provisional go-ahead from Formula One Management, with the American team gunning to enter the sport in 2026. Details about the program will likely still trickle out in the coming months – but this article will contain everything you need to know about the Cadillac F1 program and what it means.

The 11th team will be called Cadillac F1 and be run by new Andretti Global majority owners Dan Towriss and Mark Walter.

Cadillac would be the first new team to join F1 since 2016. The Las Vegas race marks the third and final stop this year for F1 in the United States. The US. has three races, in Miami; Austin, Texas; and Las Vegas. That is more than any other country.

Team name will be under General Motors' Cadillac brand as Andretti no longer operationally involved in entry bid.

Formula One announced Monday that “an agreement in principle” has been reached “with General Motors to support bringing GM/Cadillac” to the grid as the sport’s 11th team in 2026. “We’re excited to partner with General Motors in bringing a dynamic presence to Formula 1 ,

Formula One has reached an agreement in principle with General Motors to support GM/Cadillac becoming the sport's 11th team in 2026, it announced on Monday. Liberty Media-owned F1 said it had maintained a dialogue with General Motors,

The decision follows F1 rejecting Andretti Global's earlier bid to be the 11th team. GM pledges an American-made engine.

General Motors will become the 11th team on the Formula One grid for the 2026 season after agreeing a deal in principle with the sport's owners Liberty Media. The US carmaker plans to enter its Cadillac brand and said it had also registered with the governing FIA as a power unit manufacturer to become a full works outfit by the end of the decade.