Cadillac’s Formula 1 team, which is building its U.S. headquarters in Fishers, left Sunday’s United States Grand Prix without points after Valtteri Bottas stopped in the closing laps and teammate Sergio Pérez finished 19th.
The Oct. 25 race at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, brought another difficult result for the first-year team. Pérez completed 55 laps, finishing one lap behind winner Kimi Antonelli and last among the drivers still running at the finish, according to Formula 1’s official results.
Bottas slowed and pulled his Cadillac off the racing surface late in the event. His stranded car prompted a virtual safety car on lap 52 of the 56-lap race, requiring drivers to reduce speed while workers recovered it. Racing resumed on lap 54, according to Grandprix.com’s race account.
Grandprix.com listed a power-unit problem as the reason for Bottas’ retirement. Formula 1’s race report confirmed the stoppage and recovery but did not identify the failed component.
The result extended Cadillac’s search for its first championship points. The team entered Austin 11th and last in the constructors’ standings with zero points, and neither driver added to that total Sunday. Cadillac’s best Grand Prix finish remains Bottas’ 13th place in China, according to Formula 1’s team statistics.
For Fishers, the connection reaches beyond the race results. Cadillac’s headquarters project near Indianapolis Metropolitan Airport represents a substantial investment in the city’s motorsports industry.
The Indianapolis Business Journal reported that the development was planned as a $200 million, 400,000-square-foot facility employing about 300 people, with engineers and technicians assembling Formula 1 cars. The site is west of Hague Road, between East 96th and East 106th streets.
An August construction update indicated that the facility would come into use in stages. Then-team principal Graeme Lowdon told Autosport that construction was well advanced and, in broad terms, operations would begin there in 2027.
On the track Sunday, Antonelli won for Mercedes, with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc second and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen third. Cadillac’s next opportunity to improve its results comes at the Mexico City Grand Prix on Nov. 1.