F1: Cadillac will badge Renault engines if Andretti Global team wins F1 approval

It’s now official, both American car manufacturers, Ford and Cadillac, will put a decal on someone else’s cam covers when they enter F1 rather than show the world they are capable of designing and building their own.

It has now been confirmed that Alpine will indeed supply the engines for Cadillac to badge if Andretti Global win their battle to become Formula One’s 11th team, the Renault-owned sportscar maker’s chief executive Laurent Rossi said on Thursday at the launch of their 2023 A534 F1 car.

Singapore GP 2022 – Fernando Alonso rues another blown Renault engine

“We agreed that if they get their license to run in Formula One, then we will provide them with a powertrain,” Rossi told Reuters at the launch Thursday night in London.

“But it’s up to them to show that they can join the Formula One circus and for that, they need to go through the hoops, the process in place where they submit applications and they show that they bring value to the F1 circus and teams in general.

“It’s for them to prove it and for the others to assess. If they join, we’ll be happy to join them. If they don’t, it means that all in all it didn’t work out.”

For the umpteenth time in 2022. Fernando forgot his marshmallows to roast after his Alpine/Renault engine spewed its guts all over the racetrack

His words are echoed by Bruno Famin, Alpine’s executive director. “Having a second or third team could be interesting in having more experience, more test days in pre-season tests for example. It could be interesting,” he replied to a question from during the press moment after the car launch.

However, during the frozen period, I don’t see anything to gain,” Famin concluded.

They will need it. Fernando Alonso can attest to just how unreliable their engines were in 2022