{"id":2031230,"date":"2026-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2031230"},"modified":"2026-07-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:00:00","slug":"exclusive-cadillac-promoted-to-top-of-f1-championship-after-extraordinary-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2031230","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Cadillac promoted to top of F1 championship after \u2018extraordinary\u2019 review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p><em>Here&#8217;s TopGear.com&#8217;s roving correspondent, Cory Spondent, with his weekly, mostly incorrect exclusives from the world of motoring<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cadillac have been controversially promoted to the top of the Formula One constructors\u2019 championship following an \u2018extraordinary\u2019 high profile intervention, sources have told TopGear.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p>The fledgling American F1 team, currently languishing at the bottom of the standings in their debut season, have been moved ahead of Mercedes after a \u2018late night phone call\u2019 to the FIA demanding a review.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to Cadillac noted how the \u2018high profile\u2019 call also asked the FIA to review the decision to employ Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas as the team\u2019s drivers, requesting they be replaced with American NASCAR icon Dale Earnhardt Jr and fictional Piston Cup winner Lightning McQueen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p>\u201cCadillac. Great company. Some say the greatest. They make the best cars. Better than the world has ever seen and I\u2019m someone who really understands cars,\u201d the call reportedly went.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw all the Formula Ones. Every single one. Great people. Great cars, all of them. A lot of people are saying I understand the driving better than their own drivers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a person that understands the Formula One sports teams and I know Cadillac are fast. Really fast. We\u2019ve got to have the best cars competing against each other and the other Formula Ones need to have their best Formula Ones, and if we win or lose, it\u2019s fair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe top teams? Someone should take a look into their records. Some people are saying that. A lot of people are saying Cadillac are faster. Better. It\u2019s very suspect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to F1 have said USA striker Folarin Balogun would shortly be promoted to the role of Cadillac team principal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s TopGear.com&#8217;s roving correspondent, Cory Spondent, with his weekly, mostly incorrect exclusives from the world of motoring Cadillac have been controversially promoted to the top of the Formula One constructors\u2019 championship following an \u2018extraordinary\u2019 high profile intervention, sources have told TopGear.com. The fledgling American F1 team, currently languishing at the bottom of the standings in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-2031230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2031230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2031230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2031230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2031230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}