Sergio Perez is again behind the wheel of a Components 1 automobile for the primary time in practically a 12 months for a two-day testing of earlier automobile (TPC) outing as Cadillac ramps up preparations for 2026.
Cadillac doesn’t have a automobile of its personal to check, however has reached an settlement with its energy unit provider Ferrari to have entry to a 2023-specification SF-23. The check is going down at Imola and permits Cadillac the chance to coach its personal workforce members on various techniques in addition to perform race weekend simulations, with Perez driving for the primary time since his last outing for Purple Bull in December 2024.
“I feel it is nice to get the operating and in addition the timing works completely as a result of it is simply earlier than the January check,” Perez informed the official Components 1 web site. “On these two days, on the bodily aspect, I need to see how a lot I’ve misplaced, the place I must work on. It would give me an excellent information for the winter, to have the ability to concentrate on that stuff.
“It’s also an opportunity to begin working along with the workforce, with the engineers, with the mechanics and begin to communicate the identical language. It is positively a good time for us.”
The SF-23 is operating in an all-black livery moderately than the standard Ferrari pink, with the FIA in attendance to make sure compliance as is commonplace with TPC operating. Cadillac is restricted within the information and telemetry it will probably retrieve from the automobile, with a concentrate on coaching each Perez and Valtteri Bottas’ crews forward of 2026.
Cadillac check driver Colton Herta has additionally been driving in Italy earlier this month, though his check was in a earlier technology Components 2 automobile at Monza forward of his transfer into the class in 2026.
