The British Grand Prix takes place this weekend at Silverstone.It's one of the marquee races on the F1 calendar that just so happens to fall on Independence Day weekend, with the Sprint race and Grand Prix qualifying taking place on the fourth.Of course, Cadillac, F1's newest team, is American and leaning into it, so, naturally, they want to celebrate their first Fourth of July on the grid.CADILLAC F1 TEAM'S NEW MOTORHOME IS SO NICE, IT WAS WORTH DEMOLISHING AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCadillac has a special stars-and-stripes livery to celebrate the Fourth of July in, of all places, Great Britain.
(Photo by Luca Martini/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)They're doing that with a special stars-and-stripes livery — their second of the season after running a black-and-white one in Miami — all weekend long.It looks spectacular, and let's not pretend that running it all weekend long in Great Britain on the U.S.'s 250th birthday isn't absolutely hilarious.That's a great splash of red, white and blue on the grid, and I feel like decking the car out in an American-ified livery and letting it cruise around Silverstone is a nice victory lap for the U-S-of-A.ZERO BS.JUST DAKICH.
TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD.DOWNLOAD NOW!Unfortunately, the last lap laugh might go to the British, because there's a very good, almost certain chance that this car — as lovely as it is — will not be anywhere near the front in any session.Cadillac ran a black and white stars-and-stripes livery earlier this season at the Miami Grand Prix, the team's first race on home soil.
(Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP)CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APPEven for a team with substantial backing like Cadillac has, starting an F1 team from scratch is a tall order, and there have been plenty of growing pains.In fact, just this past weekend, both cars retired from the Grand Prix — Valtteri Bottas after just two laps, and Sergio Perez after four — and that came after a weekend of reliability...