New team deputy Manfredi Ravetto has confirmed Caterham will debut a new nose at this weekend’s Belgian grand prix.<\/p>\n
After founder Tony Fernandes’ exit and the new management’s ousting of 40 staff, the struggling backmarker team pressed the throttle on a development push in the hope of re-capturing the lucrative tenth in the constructors’ championship.<\/p>\n
The first fruits of that effort, involving a wind tunnel programme at Toyota’s Cologne facility, includes a new nose to replace the unique and unseemly ‘double’ nose at the front of the uncompetitive 2014 car.<\/p>\n
Publishing an image of the new nose, Italy’s Omnicorse quoted Ravetto as confirming that it will debut this weekend at Spa-Francorchamps.<\/p>\n
“The new nose is part of a package of innovations we are bringing to Spa as a demonstration of how we are trying to revive our performance, even if we are restructuring the team and living difficult days from which we hope to emerge soon,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The changes in Belgium are, in fact, just the beginning — the most important things you will see later,” Ravetto added.<\/p>\n
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