{"id":16083,"date":"2012-05-29T03:55:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16083"},"modified":"2012-05-29T03:55:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T07:55:09","slug":"lucrative-13-best-feeling-for-caterham-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lucrative-13-best-feeling-for-caterham-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucrative 13 ‘best feeling’ for Caterham chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday’s Monaco grand prix was potentially a lucrative result for the Caterham team.<\/p>\n

\"Heikki-Kovalainen-car2\"With actual points still a distant goal for the three backmarker teams, Caterham, Marussia and HRT are instead in a race for the highest classified finish.<\/p>\n

Until Monaco, it was Marussia leading the non-points race, thanks to the fourteenth place recorded by Timo Glock in Australia.<\/p>\n

The German driver did it again in Monaco, but it was Caterham who burst back into lucrative tenth place in the world championship thanks to Heikki Kovalainen’s thirteenth-place finish.<\/p>\n

At the end of the season, tenth place is the cut-off for ‘column 1’ teams under the Concorde Agreement, an achievement that last year was reportedly worth almost $30 million to Caterham.<\/p>\n

“It’s significant.\u00a0 It’s critical,” said team boss Tony Fernandes.<\/p>\n

Not only that, Kovalainen did it in style in Monaco, holding Melbourne winner Jenson Button at bay until the Melbourne winner’s battle ended with a crash.<\/p>\n

“Simply great.\u00a0 It was the best feeling I’ve had in these three years in formula one,” Fernandes told the Finnish newspaper.<\/p>\n

In contrast, Button was unimpressed, joking that he was relieved when he crashed because the “pain” of battling a defiant backmarker was over.<\/p>\n

“There has to be a balance when you’re fighting for twelfth place and I don’t think he had it right, but there you go, that’s racing,” he said.<\/p>\n

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