Cyril Abiteboul insists F1 teams need to unite to adjust to 2014 rule changes – Formula 1 news
Caterham team principal, Cyril Abiteboul, has insisted that F1 teams might need to work together in order to adapt to the new technical regulations of the 2014 F1 season.
“Potentially this breakthrough will require some partnership between the teams, and that is not only for teams like us,” Abiteboul told Autosport. “I can feel that it will be just like in the automotive business when you want to produce a new product: you
try and share the platform - that is what Renault, Alpine and Caterham will be doing [for a new sportscar for 2015]. You want to be more efficient, you want to be more competitive - and therefore you work in collaboration. I think the same thing that will
have to happen in F1.”
He added that such collaboration will be new in F1 since teams are more accustomed to competing against each other but he thinks that the future will be about coming together and especially the rule changes of 2014 will make the teams to consider it.
Although Abiteboul made it clear that there is a limit to the collaboration as well by stating that he does not want the teams to go as far as the return of customer cars to F1. He told that he is positive that Caterham and F1 both can do much better than
they are at the present time.
FIA is replacing the current V8 engines with the turbo charged V6 engines in 2014 which will be more fuel saving and environmental friendly.
Caterham is one of the three teams that debuted in F1 during the 2010 F1 season and as compared to the other two teams, Marussia and HRT, has been more successful as it has been securing the tenth place in the constructors’ championship. Although the team
still has not scored a championship point.
During the 2012 F1 season, the team changed its name to Caterham from team Lotus with Heikki Kovalainen and Vitaly Petrov representing the team. They had entered the season finale with eleventh place but then reclaimed the tenth place from rival Marussia.
For the 2013 F1season, Caterham has confirmed former Marussia driver, Charles Pic, with the second driver still to be decided.
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