Both Caterham drivers failed to finish Indian GP
Hydraulic issues stopped Pic, and a broken suspension due to a collision prevented van der Garde to finish the race.
Charles Pic, car 20, chassis CT03-#6: "After the start and coming out of turn one I was ahead of Chilton and my teammate. Giedo didn't have anywhere to go and made contact with my right rear tyre and it punctured which meant I had to come in immediately for a stop. We'd started on the soft tyres so we were always going to have to stop early, but obviously not on lap one, and with the time I'd lost with the first lap puncture I was back to where we were in Japan, having to play catch-up for the rest of the race.
"On the first set of mediums the car started behaving strangely and I was told to box again on lap 16. It turned out we had another puncture on the right rear and the tyre had lost a lot of pressure so we put on another new set of mediums and I pushed to close the gap to the cars ahead, but with such a big deficit it was always going to be unlikely I'd be able to catch and pass them. We gave it a go but we started losing hydraulic pressure, affecting the gearbox first, making changes harder, and then the steering started getting heavier and on lap 39 I was given the call to retire the car. My engineer explained afterwards that we'd had to stop because of a hydraulics leak which is why we'd had problems with the gearbox and the power steering and we had to retire to stop any more problems with the rest of the car.
Giedo van der Garde, car 21, chassis CT03-#4: "I'm really disappointed my race ended so early. I made a fair start but coming out of turn one Chilton left me no room and we made contact, breaking my front wing and suspension. It's been made really clear to us that we have to give each other room but today I wasn't given any at all and that's what's finished my race before it really got going.
"It's such a shame as this weekend the car's felt really good, the balance has been there right from the first practice session and we know we have the pace on Sundays to pull away from the cars we're fighting with. Having it all end so quickly is obviously bad, for me and everyone in the team who keep working so hard, but we can come back from this straight away next weekend in Abu Dhabi and that's exactly what I aim to do."
Caterham F1 Team
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