Cadillac’s first Formula One season continued Sunday with a difficult Canadian Grand Prix, but the team with a growing Fishers connection still managed to get one car to the finish in Montreal.

Valtteri Bottas finished 16th for the Cadillac Formula 1 Team, four laps behind race winner Kimi Antonelli, while teammate Sergio “Checo” Perez retired after completing 39 laps, according to official race results compiled by Motorsport.com. Bottas made four pit stops in the race, while Perez also stopped four times before retiring.

The race at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve was won by Antonelli, the 19-year-old Mercedes driver who captured his fourth consecutive Formula One victory. Lewis Hamilton finished second for Ferrari, with Max Verstappen third for Red Bull Racing. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was fourth, followed by Isack Hadjar and Franco Colapinto. Formula One’s official results listed Antonelli’s winning time at 1 hour, 28 minutes, 15.758 seconds, with Hamilton 10.768 seconds behind.

The most dramatic moment of the race came when George Russell, who had started from pole and battled Antonelli for the lead, retired on lap 30 with a power unit failure. Reuters reported that Antonelli now leads the drivers’ championship by 43 points after five rounds.

For Cadillac, the Canadian weekend offered both signs of progress and reminders of how steep the climb can be for a new Formula One team. On Saturday, Cadillac said Perez delivered the team’s best on-track result to date in the Sprint, crossing the line 11th before a post-race penalty dropped him to 14th. Bottas finished that Sprint 17th after starting from the pit lane.

Qualifying proved more difficult. Perez started Sunday’s Grand Prix from 20th, while Bottas qualified 22nd. Cadillac team principal Graeme Lowdon said after Saturday’s running that the team had shown it could be “in the mix of the midfield” when everything came together, but acknowledged the team could not repeat that form in qualifying.

Cadillac came to Canada with additional upgrades, including new front brake drums, diffuser trim and winglets, and front torsion bars designed to help the car handle the steep curbs at the Montreal circuit. Lowdon said before the weekend that the team’s goal was to build on momentum from Miami, where Cadillac had shown improved performance and completed both the Sprint and Grand Prix with both cars.

The team is of local interest because Cadillac is building a purpose-built Formula One headquarters in Fishers. Motorsport.com reported last year that the team is operating across both sides of the Atlantic, with its 2026 car coordinated largely from Silverstone while the Fishers facility is completed. Lowdon has said the Fishers development is nearly a half-million square feet and that, over time, the headquarters will handle the bulk of the car’s manufacturing.

Cadillac is competing in its debut Formula One season with veteran drivers Perez and Bottas. The team is backed by General Motors and TWG Motorsports and joined the F1 grid this year as the sport’s 11th constructor. Cadillac’s own site lists Perez and Bottas as the team’s lead drivers for its first season.

Formula One’s next race is the Monaco Grand Prix, scheduled for June 5-7.