Cadillac F1 team names IndyCar star Colton Herta as test driver
Herta has been named Cadillac's first American driver, joining the outfit ahead of its 2026 debut alongside race drivers Bottas and Perez
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, as Ligier begins the season with victory, plus nods to Gilles, Pedro and Foyt and more.
1903: Resistance fighter and Grand Prix winner, and all-but forgotten, W Williams is born. In profile
1930: Luki Botha, one-time GP starter, is born. In profile
1935: Le Mans winner and US racing great AJ Foyt is born. In profile
1937: Formula Ford winner and Grand Prix starter Luiz-Pereira Bueno is born. In profile
1952: F3 champ, F1 racer and sports car winner Piercarlo Ghinzani is born. In profile
1895: Le Mans winner John Duff is born. In profile
1938: Rally driver, and Le Mans starter, Rauno Aaltonen is born.
1940: The frighteningly fast Pedro Rodriguez is born. In profile
1942: Johnny Servoz-Gavin, F3 and F2 champion who qualified on the front row on F1 debut, is born. In profile
1950: Gilles Villeneuve is born. In profile
1950: Gianfranco Brancatelli is born. In profile
1971: IMSA champion Christian Fittipaldi is born. In profile
1907: Briggs Cunningham is born. In profile
1914: “Mr Bob” Gerard is born. In profile
1969: Carlo Salamano, Italian Grand Prix winner, dies aged 69. In profile
1980: Jenson Button is born. In profile
1984: Karun Chandhok is born. In profile
1957: Bentley Boy and father of the BRDC, JD Benjafield passes away. In profile
1975: Norberto Fontana is born. In profile
1991: GP2 champion and Renault F1 racer Jolyon Palmer is born. In profile
2004: Alan Brown dies of a heart attack. In profile
1975: Yuji Ide, former Super Aguri driver, is born. In profile
1979: Jacques Laffite wins the Argentine Grand Prix. Report
1959: Mike Hawthorn is killed in a road accident. In profile
2007: British Grand Prix winner Emmanuel de Graffenried dies at the age of 92. In profile
Herta has been named Cadillac's first American driver, joining the outfit ahead of its 2026 debut alongside race drivers Bottas and Perez
Ferrari will honour Lauda's first title with a special livery at the Italian Grand Prix, but does it make it into the list of best-looking one-off Scuderia paint schemes?
Piastri and Norris’s Dutch GP drama echoed McLaren’s past, 40 years on from Lauda and Prost’s fierce Zandvoort duel, as Mark Hughes recalls
McLaren Racing has been valued at up to $5 billion as Bahrain's Mumtalakat and Abu Dhabi's CYVN Holdings take full control