Everybody wants a Mercedes PU for next year, but of all candidates I find Caterham the least likely.
Nah, the will close the doors at the end of the season, at least that's what I suspect.
Again, because MrE has obligations to the race organizers to present 22 cars, besides it looks bad to lose a team mid-season.Cam wrote:Then why keep the doors open at all? Using both my analytical and (very) imaginative brain - I can't see a reason for someone to buy in, only to shut it up. What's the theory behind that?
Caterham has 400 employees now, so Kolles wants to cut it by half"I prefer to have 200 safe jobs than 300 lost jobs," - Kolles
Quite possibly the prize fund (even for 11th) is bigger than the cost of buying and running bare bones to the end of the season...Cam wrote:Then why keep the doors open at all? Using both my analytical and (very) imaginative brain - I can't see a reason for someone to buy in, only to shut it up. What's the theory behind that?
BBC says 40.Per wrote:I heard that a rather large number of people were sacked at Caterham today. I don't know if we're talking about 20 people or 50 though.
The management said they have money to push forward with updates, so I doubt either driver would be "stuck" with the interim testing FW unless they preferred it.JDC123 wrote:Why is it that caterham are using to different version of their front wing. The one which kobayashi uses with the huge cascade and the smaller one that Ericsson uses. I remember reading there was only one of the updated front wings available when it was brought to melbourne, but why are they still using the older version now. Could it be financially they don't want to produce more of them on there reduced budget, as I seem to remember with HRT towards the later part of 2012 they appeared to be using parts from all sorts of different seasons.