{"id":19027,"date":"2013-08-19T07:11:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T11:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19027"},"modified":"2013-08-19T07:11:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T11:11:14","slug":"caterham-targets-early-call-over-2014-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/caterham-targets-early-call-over-2014-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Caterham targets early call over 2014 drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caterham has promised to make an early call over its 2014 driver lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the current lineup, the team announced at last season&#8217;s Brazil finale that Charles Pic would be driving a green car in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>And Giedo van der Garde was only unveiled as Frenchman Pic&#8217;s teammate in February this year &#8212; mere weeks before the championship began.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the 2014 lineup, boss Cyril Abiteboul told Brazil&#8217;s Totalrace: &#8220;We would like to decide earlier than we did this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a way, that it took so long (for 2013) did hurt us.\u00a0 And next year the understanding between team and driver will be so important with the new power unit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we want to make sure we make the decision as early as possible so that we can learn everything that can be learned before the first test.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like it to be set in September or October,&#8221; Abiteboul added.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Dutchman van der Garde&#8217;s place at Caterham is considered in doubt due to his performance in 2013 so far.<\/p>\n<p>He told Telegraaf newspaper: &#8220;Important progression for any rookie is difficult at first, and now I&#8217;ve experienced it first-hand this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I&#8217;m sure that the trend for the last races will be upwards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is still too early to talk about next year and all the rumours,&#8221; van der Garde insisted.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caterham has promised to make an early call over its 2014 driver lineup. Regarding the current lineup, the team announced at last season&#8217;s Brazil finale that Charles Pic would be driving a green car in 2013. And Giedo van der Garde was only unveiled as Frenchman Pic&#8217;s teammate in February this year &#8212; mere weeks &#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":[3605,4110,5262,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19027"}],"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=19027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19028,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19027\/revisions\/19028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}