Cadillac named Marcin Budkowski as its new Team Principal, handing the Polish engineer his biggest F1 role after a 25-year career across championship-winning teams. The 49-year-old brings serious pedigree: six seasons at Ferrari, a 2008 title run with Hamilton at McLaren where he rose to Head of Aerodynamics, and a stint at the FIA where he helped push through the halo device. He spent four years leading Alpine's technical and sporting operations alongside Laurent Rossi and Davide Brivio, scoring a breakthrough win in Hungary 2021 before departing early in 2022. Alpine's subsequent chaos—three Team Principals in three years, near-total executive turnover—makes his exit look prescient. Since then he's worked media gigs for Eleven Sports Poland and Viaplay while staying paddock-adjacent. For Cadillac, the hire signals they're serious about credibility from day one. Budkowski starts at Zandvoort next weekend.
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Cadillac named Marcin Budkowski as its new Team Principal, handing the Polish engineer his biggest F1 role after a 25-year career across championship-winning teams. The 49-year-old brings serious pedigree: six seasons at Ferrari, a 2008 title run with Hamilton at McLaren where he rose to Head of Aerodynamics, and a stint at the FIA where he helped push through the halo device. He spent four years leading Alpine's technical and sporting operations alongside Laurent Rossi and Davide Brivio, scoring a breakthrough win in Hungary 2021 before departing early in 2022. Alpine's subsequent chaos—three Team Principals in three years, near-total executive turnover—makes his exit look prescient. Since then he's worked media gigs for Eleven Sports Poland and Viaplay while staying paddock-adjacent. For Cadillac, the hire signals they're serious about credibility from day one. Budkowski starts at Zandvoort next weekend.
