Midseason Report: Grading Caterham’s Charles Pic

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Published: August 9, 2013

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Fellow Bleacher Report featured columnist Scott Mitchell wrote an extremely good article on drivers who may not feature in Formula One next season.

Amongst those drivers were Giedo van der Garde and Charles Pic. While I graded van der Garde’s performance relative to those of his Caterham teammate, I’m going for a change of tack here and grade Pic on what he did in 2012.

Pic is the more experienced man, having driven for Marussia in 2012. And with precious little between the two teams, it seems a fair benchmark. So how much has he learned from last year and has he done enough so far? Let’s look at the evidence.

 

Australia: 2012 Q21 / 15th 2013 Q22 / 16th

Not too much of a difference then between last year and this to start with apart from the fact that Pic finished the race and finished in front of Marussia’s Max Chilton and van der Garde. In 2012, although classified 15th, he pulled into the pits five laps before the end with failing oil pressure.

Verdict: Nothing to judge on these results

 

Malaysia: 2012 Q21 / 20th 2013 Q 20 / 14th

An improvement on last season then, with Pic again proving the best of the tail-enders. In 2012 Pic was hampered by a clutch problem and had his first experience of extreme-wet tyres. And this year Pic was involved in an incident with Jean-Eric Vergne, losing his front wing when Vergne was released right into his path. Not really his fault, and he may have done even better without it.

Verdict: A slight improvement

 

China: 2012 Q22 / 20th 2013 Q20 / 16th

Pic stayed with experienced teammate Timo Glock throughout his debut Chinese GP en route to finishing the race, and this year he was even stronger, as he highlighted in his team’s post-race press release.

For me that was a good race, almost as good as we could have hoped for ...
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