How Cadillac Are Secretly Building an F1 Superteam: Team Boss Graeme Lowdon (E359)

There's Elvis and Munro and Mohammed Ali, iconic people in their in their field, and they all choose a Cadillac, so there must be some reason. From the day that the entry got confirmed, my phone got, you know, reasonably busy from driver managers. Everyone wants to drive a Cadillac, that's that's absolutely for sure. Visibility was poor, you know, it was raining, and I knew that jewels had gone off. And as soon as I saw that, I thought, no, this isn't going to be good.

You know, you learn a lot from you learn a lot from stuff like that. That is the voice of Graham Loudoun, the man leading one of the boldest projects in modern Formula One. In fact, as you're about to hear him describe to me, no one has ever taken a bigger gamble in Formula One than the US-based Cadillac F1 team. And Graham is about to open up about that gamble, about the process of actually creating a Formula One team from scratch when there isn't a book on how to do it. He talks about the multi

multi-million pound gamble that had to be taken even before Cadillac knew if they'd be on the grid. And in this conversation, Graham and I also get very emotional as he opens up about losing driver Jules Bianchi after his tragic crash in Japan and the deep impact that Jules left on him and many of us Formula One fans. He also tells us how that experience changed the way that he leads forever. We'll then discuss nearly losing the team, the incredible story, and it is incredible, of fighting to stay on the grid against the odds as the team's assets were sold around him, and he also shares what real leadership looks like in the hardest moments and why purpose, not position, is what keeps people going. This is a classic Formula One conversation from a man who has been there at the sharp end and experienced true highs and the lowest of lows.

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