{"id":18556,"date":"2013-06-19T07:15:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T11:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18556"},"modified":"2013-06-19T07:15:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T11:15:58","slug":"caterham-reserves-judgement-on-2013-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/caterham-reserves-judgement-on-2013-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Caterham reserves judgement on 2013 drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caterham boss Cyril Abiteboul has backed the team&#8217;s all-new driver lineup, amid suggestions Heikki Kovalainen should be drafted back in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px; border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Cyril-Abiteboul-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Cyril-Abiteboul-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>For the first time since its 2010 debut, the green-liveried team appeared to falter early this season with an outdated car and in the wake of experienced driver Kovalainen&#8217;s departure.<\/p>\n<p>Finn Kovalainen reappeared in Friday practice in Bahrain and Spain, triggering rumours he might soon replace either rookie Giedo van der Garde &#8211; slammed by Mark Webber in Canada as a &#8216;pay driver with no mirrors&#8217; &#8211; or Charles Pic.<\/p>\n<p>Abiteboul told F1&#8217;s official website: &#8220;He (Kovalainen) definitely helped in the couple of sessions he ran, and in the feedback he gave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But there is no sign the 31-year-old will appear again, even if Finnish commentator for MTV3, Oskari Saari, said: &#8220;I still believe he will race this season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For now, Abiteboul is backing van der Garde, who will drop five places on the Silverstone grid after his crash with Webber in Canada, and Frenchman Pic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Same as with the team, I&#8217;d like to evaluate both drivers properly at the right moment, but for now I think both are making progress in parallel,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caterham boss Cyril Abiteboul has backed the team&#8217;s all-new driver lineup, amid suggestions Heikki Kovalainen should be drafted back in. For the first time since its 2010 debut, the green-liveried team appeared to falter early this season with an outdated car and in the wake of experienced driver Kovalainen&#8217;s departure. Finn Kovalainen reappeared in Friday &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[3021,4110,5262,5340,2286,517,165],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18557,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556\/revisions\/18557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}