Bottas exposes Cadillac 'new team' issues after Miami GP drive-through penalty

As revealed by the former Mercedes man, a "known issue" was what caused Bottas to exceed the speed limit, namely a faulty pit limiter button. Such a fault is hardly a surprise given it was only Cadillac's fourth-ever round in F1 - the American giant has performed admirably so far in 2026, ahead of established team Aston Martin amid the Silverstone-based team's reliability woes.

Speaking to media, including GPblog, about his drive-through penalty, Bottas put the pit limiter issue down to the sort of teething issues a brand-new F1 team is always going to encounter. He explained: “I pressed the pit limiter button, but apparently not hard enough.

The 10-time Grand Prix winner was then asked whether reliability issues were playing into any frustrations with being at the back of the grid, with Aston Martin the only other team realistically close to Cadillac in terms of competition. Bottas responded: “It’s not frustration, this is what I signed up for.

After the introduction of their first major upgrade package of the season, Bottas is hopeful the American team is heading in the right direction, looking ahead to another North American race at Montreal in two weeks' time.

He added: "There are a lot of hidden areas that we are improving. The pace sometimes seemed a bit better this weekend, sometimes not. But I think the upgrades worked. Not every part is the same that we put on the car, so there’s a bit of lack of consistency there but overall, it’s getting better and hopefully we are going to make another step in Montreal.”