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.

Formula One confirmed Monday it will expand its grid in 2026, adding a U.S.-based team partnered with General Motors, marking a major milestone in

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.

General Motors has a deal to join Formula 1 under the Cadillac brand and participate in the FIA Formula One World Championship for the 2026 season, the automaker announced on Monday. Formula 1 says it has accepted in principle and will move GM and Cadillac's application forward to become the 11th team on the grid — making it the first new team to join since 2016.

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.

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.