After narrowly and painstakingly missing out on their first ever points at the Monaco Grand Prix, instead witnessing their nearest rivals leap ahead courtesy of Marussia’s Jules Bianchi barging past Caterhams Kamui Kobayshi to come home 9th, Caterham will be praying for rain and for a large amount of retirements if they are too have any hope of scoring points and catching Marussia.
Caterham Canadian GP Preview
Marcus Ericsson came home a career best 11th place, one position outside the points last time round but nevertheless, Caterham are hugely off the pace with their GP2 team outpacing them in Barcelona! Kamui Kobayashi says the team are working flat out but with limited money and resources, flat out may not be enough.
Kobayashi appears to be the best hope of points while Ericsson still gets to grips with the, let’s face it, terrible and ugly CT05 with team principal Cyril Abiteboul admitting they brought the Japanese driver in to match Jules Bianchi.
The future looks bleak for Caterham at the moment and with rumours QPR boss Tony Fernandes has put the entire Caterham group up for sale, a huge question marks lies over their future. I hope, for their sake that they remain in Formula 1.
However, anything can happen in this sport, and a repeat of Monaco with the added conditions from the 2011 Canadian GP might just turn Caterham around and give them the hope they need. We will just have to wait and see.
Practice 1 of the Canadian Grand Prix begins on Friday 3.00pm UTC
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