For many years Formula 1 tried and failed to connect with the US audience, but all that has changed in the last decade. Burgeoning interest is now served by three grands prix on US soil and an American team on the grid – with another one about to join.
Cadillac is also the first mainstream US car manufacturer to field a team in F1. Although the Indianapolis 500 was included on the world championship calendar in the 1950s as a hands-across-the-ocean exercise, very few competitors made the crossing either way.
For that reason we haven’t included Indy 500 entrants in our run-down of American F1 teams, but it would be remiss of us to exclude those who flew the flag despite not being based in the US…
