布德科夫斯基：加盟凯迪拉克前曾与F1半数以上车队接触
凯迪拉克新任领队马尔钦·布德科夫斯基确认，在加盟这支新军之前，他曾与F1围场中超过半数的车队进行过谈判，并解释了最终选择凯迪拉克的原因。此前凯迪拉克在夏休期间出人意料地宣布由他取代格雷姆·洛登担任领队。
马尔钦·布德科夫斯基在选择凯迪拉克之前曾与'超过一半'的F1车手阵容进行过洽谈
凯迪拉克周三发布惊人公告，宣布格雷姆·洛登已被布德科夫斯基取代F1车队领队职位
新任凯迪拉克车队领队马尔钦·布德科夫斯基证实，他曾与F1车手阵容中'超过一半'的车手进行过谈判，并解释了为何最终选择了这支初登F1舞台的车队。
周三，凯迪拉克发布惊人公告，宣布在其新秀F1赛季的夏休期间，格雷姆·洛登已被布德科夫斯基取代车队领队职位。
美国车队目前在11轮比赛后垫底且未获得积分，但考虑到凯迪拉克本被预计是最慢的，洛登（Lowdon）的下课仍然令人意外。
尽管如此，CEO丹·托里斯（Dan Towriss）仍决定作出改变，选择了布德科夫斯基（Budkowski）。后者自2001年以空气动力学家的身份加入普罗斯特（Prost）以来，在世界锦标赛中担任过各种职务。
这位49岁的波兰人于2002年离开普罗斯特，在法拉利（法拉利）效力五年，随后加入迈凯伦（迈凯伦）。2014年他离开迈凯伦，成为国际汽联（FIA）的技术与体育协调员。
2020年，布德科夫斯基离开国际汽联，加入雷诺（Renault）车队担任执行总监；2021年，他在双重领导架构下与达维德·布里维奥（Davide Brivio）共同分担车队领队职责。
Budkowski 于2022年离开了 Enstone 车队，此后一直担任电视解说员，在与多支车队进行谈判后，四年后重返一支 F1 车队。
“过去几年里，我与围场中超过一半的车队都有过商谈——有些谈得比较深入，有些则没那么深入，”Budkowski 确认道。
“但对我而言，重要的是，如果我要回归这种领导岗位，就要投身于一个我本人相信的项目，这其中包含几个方面。
“这个项目非常有雄心，它由 TWG Group 提供支持，而 TWG Group 深度参与赛车运动；General Motors 是世界上最大的汽车公司之一，抱负远大，并且资金充足，而这在我之前的经历中并不总是如此。
“另外，有一件事真的、真的让我对加入非常有信心，那就是与我交谈过的所有人，实际上都将进入车队董事会和车队最高领导层的所有人，都是赛车运动圈内的人。
“他们都是为赛车运动而活的人，懂赛车运动，也深度接触过赛车运动，我觉得这对我来说非常、非常耳目一新，因为从一开始，对话就完全不同。
“既有雄心，也有打造一支强大车队、并最终成为一支有竞争力车队、能够在前方战斗的车队的渴望。
“但也真正理解这有多艰难，理解前方道路的时间表，我认为自从我们开始与Dan交谈以来，我们的愿景就非常、非常相似，看待事物发展的方式也很一致。
“我不觉得会有很大的压力落在我身上，我确信会有期待，在这种角色中这是合乎逻辑也很正常的，但这些期待并不离谱，也没有完全脱离F1的现实。
“每个人都理解前方挑战的巨大，但有一种迎接挑战的决心，而我是带着同样的心态加入的。
“说实话，对我来说，这部分比我们谈到的所有基础、支持等等都更重要，那就是这种态度和愿景，以及真正坐下来与那些生活和呼吸都围绕着赛车运动、并且从根本上理解赛车运动的人交谈。”
英文原文
Marcin Budkowski spoke to 'over half' the F1 grid before choosing Cadillac
Cadillac made a shock announcement on Wednesday that Graeme Lowdon had been replaced by Budkowski as its F1 team boss
New Cadillac team principal Marcin Budkowski confirmed he’d held negotiations with “more than half” of the Formula 1 grid as he explained why he opted for the debutant outfit.
On Wednesday Cadillac made a shock announcement that Graeme Lowdon had been replaced by Budkowski as team principal during the summer shutdown of its rookie F1 campaign.
The American squad sits bottom of the championship and without a point after 11 rounds, but Lowdon’s dismissal was still a surprise considering Cadillac was expected to be slowest.
CEO Dan Towriss nevertheless opted for change and went for Budkowski, who has held various roles in the world championship since joining Prost as an aerodynamicist in 2001.
The 49-year-old Pole left Prost in 2002 for a five-year stint at Ferrari before joining McLaren, where he left to become technical and sporting coordinator for governing body the FIA in 2014.
In 2020 Budkowski then left the FIA to join the Renault squad as an executive director, while in 2021 he shared the team principal duties in a dual set-up alongside Davide Brivio.
Budkowski left the Enstone squad in 2022 and has since been a television pundit, before returning to an F1 team four years later after negotiations with various squads.
“I've had discussions in the past years with more than half of the teams on the grid - some of them more advanced and some less advanced,” confirmed Budkowski.
“But for me, it was important, if I come back to this kind of leadership role, to be in a project that I believe in and there's a few aspects to that.
“This project is very ambitious, it's backed by TWG Group which is extremely involved in motorsport, General Motors is one of the biggest car companies in the world with a lot of ambition, with funding which wasn't always the case in my previous ventures.
“Also, one thing that really, really made me very confident in joining is that all the people that I talk to, all the people who effectively will be on the board of the team and in the top leadership of the team, are motorsport people.
“They're all people who live motorsport, who understand motorsport, who've been very exposed to motorsport and I think that's very, very refreshing for me, because the conversation is completely different from the get-go.
“There's the ambition, there's the desire to build a strong team and eventually a competitive team, a team that will be able to fight at the front.
“But there's a real understanding of how challenging it is, of the timelines of the road ahead and I think since we started talking with Dan, I think our visions are very, very similar and the ways we see things developing.
“I don't feel there will be a lot of pressure on me and I'm sure there will be expectations and that's logical and normal in this kind of role, but these expectations are not unreasonable and are not completely removed from the reality of Formula 1.
“Everybody understands the size of the challenge ahead, but there is the commitment to tackle it and I'm joining this with the same mindset.
“To be honest, that part for me was beyond all the foundations we talked about and the backing and etc, it's the attitude and the vision and actually being sat and talking to people who live and breathe motorsport and who fundamentally understand motorsport.”
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