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After announcing that he would step down as the head of Caterham’s F1 effort, in order to concentrate on the newly-created partnership between Caterham’s road car division, and Renault, for the development of sports cars in general, and the new Alpine, for the French company, Tony Fernandes has been replaced by Cyril Abiteboul.
The latter said: "I am honoured to take over as team principal, now combining that role with the CEO post I took up in September 2012, and I would like to thank Tony and [Dato'] Kamarudin [Bin Meranun] for the chance to lead this team into the next phase of its growth [. . .] We have big challenges ahead of us but the shareholders are committed and behind us to help us take significant steps forward over the coming years, and one day challenge for the highest honours in F1 [. . .] We have an incredible spirit within the team and that has been created by Tony and Kamarudin. This spirit, allied to a strategic vision that gives us a clear path to success, is what will keep driving us forwards and we all look forward to the day we can make the dreams our shareholders had several years ago come true."
Abiteboul, who joined Caterham as the CEO for their F1 division, in September, will try to blend both positions into one, and do as good a job as possible - he does have Fernandes’ confidence and trust, as well as experience working at RenaultSport, so things will most likely run smoothly.
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Abiteboul, who joined Caterham as the CEO for their F1 division, in September, will try to blend both positions into one, and do as good a job as possible - he does have Fernandes’ confidence and trust, as well as experience working at RenaultSport, so things will most likely run smoothly.
Story via autosport.com
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