Sergio Perez wowed over 100,000 fans on Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma ahead of his 300th grand prix start this weekend, but there's a catch: he wasn't driving a real Formula 1 car. Instead, Perez piloted one of the movie props from "F1: The Movie" — a Formula 2 chassis dressed up with Mercedes-designed bodywork. Cadillac, in their debut F1 season, doesn't have any previous-year machinery to use for show runs, so they borrowed from Hollywood. The optics still worked. Perez, freshly locked in through 2029 with the American team, delivered the spectacle his home crowd wanted. Whether the car had legitimate F1 DNA didn't matter to the fans lining the streets. For Cadillac, it's a reminder of how green they still are — no back catalog, no test mules, just movie cars and ambition. Perez hits his milestone at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez on Sunday, this time in the real thing.
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