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20th August 2014, 14:24 #1
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Caterham swaps Kamui for Andre at Spa
Apparently , Caterham has decided to drop Lotterer into the seat for Spa .
They are saying Kobayashi is still a part of the team , and , as Andre has a good record at Spa , winning even this year in the 24 hr race , it seems it will only be for this race .
Kolles is likely to have been involved as well , as they have ties , and he's working the restructuring in the back rooms .
It should be really interesting to see how he gets on with it , as this will be truly dropping him in the deep end , never having raced in an F1 car before .
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20th August 2014, 15:07 #2
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Yeah. That's not bad news. Lotterer has had a good career. An F1 start/s, even just some token ones, will add to it.
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20th August 2014, 19:48 #3
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so kobayashi , whips ericsson in every metric and was instrumental in car set up and whatever development the team was making and they boot him for one race for lotterer?
makes no sense. if anything they needed to sit ericsson down for a race if they were serious about fielding the 2 strongest drivers. And if it is down to not paying kobayashi, then they are shooting themselves in the foot, because he has the potential of dragging that car much higher on the grid than ericsson. Some strange developments with this new caterham team. SMHyou can't argue with results.
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20th August 2014, 20:21 #4
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According to Joe , Andre is a good developer , and feedback isn't Kamui's strong point , so they are hoping for direction from him .
He's raced in Japan a lot , so is used to tricky conditions , and is a master of Spa , winning numerous times in other series .
So , it's maybe not so crazy .
And , Ericsson pays to drive , so stays in his seat .
Kobayashi is out of the seat for at least this race , and needs to hope the car does indeed improve , to have any chance of beating anyone but his team mate , but not improved so much that he's out of the seat entirely .
Kinda scary moment for Kamui fans .
They were very careful to note that he's still part of the team , but they didn't say if this was Lotterer's only race .
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20th August 2014, 21:17 #5
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Fair enough TBH. I like to see another driver get a chance.
Good luck I guessI still exist and still find the forum occasionally. Busy busy
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21st August 2014, 00:00 #6
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That team is an utter mess. Even with two winners (Trulli and Kovalainen) they have been nothing short of miserable.
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21st August 2014, 00:34 #7
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well perez would beg to differ as he has recently heaped a massive amount of praise towards kobayashi for being instrumental in helping his development at sauber.
Yeah ericsson is a pay driver but not covering himself in glory.
lets hope they sort this thing out. I wonder what they are paying lotterer for this one race, or is it some kind of arrangement for some sort of sponsorship?
i can't image that it is a pay drive, but if it is, then caterham are in more serious trouble than before the saleyou can't argue with results.
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21st August 2014, 01:24 #8
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I was reading an article on Autosport called "The 50 Greatest Drivers to Never Reach F1". Andre was among them. Now he can say that he *has* competed in F1.
I think it is more of a money thing. Kobayashi is paid, and Ericsson pays. Lotterer will probably also pay for his drive.:champion: 1990 BTCC-CHAMPION w/ 207 points and 9 race wins :burnout:
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21st August 2014, 02:08 #9
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Not to mention that Lotterer as an Audi driver haa way more experience drying hybrid engined cars than any of the current F1 drivers. Normally Joe Sewage doesn't provide much instead of bovine excrement and plugging his commercial projects, but on the account of Lotterer being an accomplished development driver he's quite correct. I think the team doesn't have much confidence in Koba's feedback - engineering-wise.
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21st August 2014, 03:51 #10
Meeke had a big gap to Rossel after stage 3 (20 sec) at stage 4 had a puncture and now the gap to Rossel is just 2 sec Gryazin strangely slow,anybody now why?...
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