Formula 1 2013 Progress Report: Caterham

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Published: April 2, 2013

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Caterham finished the 2012 Formula One season in 10th place in the constructors' championship, but it was a close run thing.

After a promising start and some positive statements, they dropped the ball badly as the season went on and were almost overhauled by the financially weaker Marussia team.

In the closing months of last season Tony Fernandes stepped down from his role as Team Principle, and his replacement is Cyril Abiteboul, formerly of Renault Sport F1.

That can only be a positive. As good as Mr. Fernandes is in the business world, the role of team principle should be held by someone well versed in the sport and who can dedicate themselves to it full-time.

 

Car

This year's car, the CT03, is an evolution of last year's CT01 (the CT02 is, confusingly, a road car). It's currently very similar to its older brother, so much so that Abiteboul described it as a hybrid car.

By that he means it's part 2012, part 2013—more so than the other cars on the grid.

There are a good number of changes from last year, but as it stands the CT03 is a work-in-progress—the team has major updates planned for the Bahrain Grand Prix, and the hope is that they'll make the car substantially quicker.

But as a snapshot of what it is now, it holds the distinction of being the worst car on the grid.

And it seems especially poor in qualifying. The CT03 was actually slower around Malaysia in Q1 a few weeks ago than the CT01 was last year. Every other car was quicker than its predecessor.

 



Drivers

From their formation in 2010 as Lotus, Caterham have always fielded at least one race winner—Heikki Kovalainen and Jarno Trulli in 2010 and 2011, and Kovalainen alone in 2012. They weren't the best of the best, but they were experienced racers.

This season, they've taken the dual pay-driver approach.

The team is led by Charles Pi...
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