Former Miami Grand Prix president Tyler Epp has joined Cadillac’s new Components 1 workforce as its world head of economic technique.
Epp had been the president of the Miami race since 2022 but it surely was introduced final week that he has accepted a place elsewhere and would be replaced by Katharina Nowak. That new vacation spot has now been confirmed as Cadillac, the place Epp will lead the incoming F1 workforce’s industrial operations.
“I’ve spent a lot of my profession in racing, and the previous a number of years serving to redefine what American motorsports may be,” Epp mentioned. “I can’t consider a extra thrilling and promising alternative to impress our sport in the USA and past than this one. The Cadillac Components 1 Workforce is poised to grow to be a world pressure in F1 that’s rooted in American custom and ingenuity. I’m extremely proud to hitch this effort from the very starting.”
Epp had been main the motorsport enterprise alongside Tom Garfinkel in Miami for the reason that inaugural race in 2022 – initially as senior vice chairman and chief working officer – and previous to that had been concerned with Kansas Metropolis Chiefs as VP of enterprise growth and government VP of enterprise operations.
With Epp having helped Miami set up itself as a brand new race in F1 and earn a contract extension till 2041, TWG Motorsports and Cadillac F1 workforce CEO Dan Towriss says his observe report made him the right match for the game’s latest entrant.
“We couldn’t have discovered a greater chief and visionary to construct out the industrial arm of our workforce,” Towriss mentioned. “His work shaping the Miami Grand Prix into one of many marquee occasions on the Components 1 calendar demonstrates his distinctive command of the game domestically and worldwide.”
Though he additionally has prior motorsport expertise in NASCAR and IndyCar, Epp’s report in delivering a profitable new occasion was additionally highlighted by Cadillac workforce principal Graeme Lowdon, because the Normal Motors-supported workforce prepares to hitch the grid in 2026.
“It requires unimaginable management to efficiently construct a workforce from the bottom up, and it takes somebody distinctive to execute the kind of imaginative and prescient and ambitions we’ve got for the Cadillac Components 1 Workforce,” Lowdon mentioned. “Tyler has a confirmed observe report of cultivating organizations that set the usual in Components 1, and I’m assured that his operational experience will probably be a important asset to our group.”
