{"id":22580,"date":"2014-07-17T06:45:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T10:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22580"},"modified":"2014-07-17T06:45:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T10:45:33","slug":"caterham-axes-at-least-50-f1-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/caterham-axes-at-least-50-f1-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Caterham axes ‘at least 50’ F1 staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

“At least 50” Caterham staff have left the Leafield based team, according to Speed Week.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the British grand prix, the Tony Fernandes-founded team’s new advisor Colin Kolles admitted that up to a hundred of the 300-strong workforce might have to go as he makes Caterham more “efficient” for the future.<\/p>\n

The BBC, Reuters and the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf on Wednesday said “more than 40” employees were let go in the days between Silverstone and this weekend’s German grand prix.<\/p>\n

Reportedly among the departures were technical boss Jody Eggington and track operations chief Gerry Hughes.<\/p>\n

Test driver Alexander Rossi also exits with immediate effect, although – for now at least – fellow tester Robin Frijns is safe, as are racers Kamui Kobayashi and Marcus Ericsson.<\/p>\n

Speed Week, however, reports that “at least 50” Caterham staff are in fact leaving, including designer Lewis Butler and head of research and development Elliot Dason-Barber.<\/p>\n

Caterham, now owned by mysterious Middle Eastern investors operating out of Switzerland, would not comment.<\/p>\n

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“At least 50” Caterham staff have left the Leafield based team, according to Speed Week. Ahead of the British grand prix, the Tony Fernandes-founded team’s new advisor Colin Kolles admitted that up to a hundred of the 300-strong workforce might have to go as he makes Caterham more “efficient” for the future. The BBC, Reuters …<\/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":[3605,602,5262,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22580"}],"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=22580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22581,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22580\/revisions\/22581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}