Mark Smith says Caterham needs a lot of effort to achieve the goals they have set – Formula 1 news
Mark Smith, technical director of Caterham is of the view that his team will have to work hard in order to achieve the desired goals.
He said that the second half of the season has nearly approached and they have been unable to achieve their goals in the first half of the season.
Their plan for now was to score at least a single point in the constructors’ championship and be able to pass through other backmarkers who do not own a single point.
He added that their drivers performed well and the pit stops and strategies adopted by them were good as well. Moreover, he said that the effort was not only done by the driver but whole of the team has played their part.
Smith said, “We have reached the end of the first half of the season and the race in Hungary is a fair indication of where we are,” Smith said. “Both drivers performed as well as we could have wanted and they ran faultlessly. The pitstops and the strategy
were both good and the efforts everyone has made, here on track and back at the factory, cannot be questioned.”
“However, we are not where we want to be and we know we have work to do to achieve the goals we have set for this season,” he said.
Despite the good strategies they have adopted, Smith is of the view that they have been unable to achieve the ambition they wanted and to achieve that ambition, they have to work very hard.
He believes that their aim is not unachievable and with consistent hard work, they will be able to achieve their goals.
Furthermore, he said that it is good that summer break is about to start. During the break, they will get some time to relax and regain their strengths so that they may be able to achieve the goals they have planned.
Using the Renault engine Team Caterham took part in its first race in 2010. Until now, Caterham has been unable to attain a single point. The drivers for Caterham are Heikki Kovalainen and Vitaly Petrov.
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