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Stepped nose but looks ok

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MsGL1clXXuw#!

Video of the car

Real big change in the livery, there's a very good shot on Caterham's Twitter page of GVG in it in the garage... looks to be a very light green metallic, lighter than the Jaguar livery IMO. (Of course, lighting can be tricky.)

I like it.

Like the Marussia, I hope that it has picked up some speed so there's not such a difference between midfield and back of the field this year. Though I'm thinking something closer to '11 Williams (5 pts) is more likely, with matching the '12 Toro Rossos being a great year for either Caterham or Marussia.

edit:... looking at Caterham's Facebook page, it is definitely much lighter than past years.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151538821633465&set=a.10151538819573465.555974.292309963464&type=3&theater

Nice to have a shiny green car back on the grid!

Seems slightly strange that the monitor and their overalls are still the old colour, but it lets you see the difference.

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Interesting what they've done over the sidepod intakes.

Toro Rosso have got the same "fins" iirc they had them last year too.

Not sure on the light green yet, will have to reserve judgement for now.

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Damn, they have two really serious sponsors: General Electric and EADS/Airbus.

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I like the brighter green but where are the yellow stripes at the nose???

From the straight on shots, you really don't see any yellow. I wouldn't mind see some more yellow as it looks an awful lot like a green Jaguar from the front.

But overall, I think I like it better than the dark of last year.

Overall, I'm glad to see a few teams change enough that the grid will look noticably different this year.

top-teams started that trend early on last year - this is to direct the airflow over the sidepods to the exhausts, adjusting the position where the exhaust gases meet the rear floor...

midfield-teams picked that up shortly after the top-teams - kind of a must have with coanda-exhausts...

that said, the caterham-solution looks bulky and not as fine as others... i don't want to say it brings a clumsy feeling but it certainly looks like work in progress...

I wasn't sure but I do love the green now - similar green to the jaguar becks livery. I really hope they're faster this year but it seems a lot more simplistic in design compared to the top runners. I guess we wont really know until Saturday in Australia

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Love the green, very fresh looking.

The Caterham and Marussia both seem to be lacking in sponsors this season

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Wopuldn't read too much into it. GE at least and probably Airbus also included was a side deal on The air line deal.

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Disclaimer: The above post maybe tongue in cheek.

"I thought I'd get your theories, mock them, then embrace my own. The usual."

Yuo Fernandes probably had a deal for his airline given that they use Airbus planes and GE engines. Doubt it brings much (if anything) to the F1 team though.

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Dat livery!

Looks like the "monkey seat" is held up by a stalk in the middle instead of having end plate type of supports on either side like the others. Has anyone noticed any other teams doing that?

Gorgeous looking car. Green is my favourite colour so this livery is defo one of the best IMO haha

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Great looking livery

Finally an exemplary livery. Looks good for the eyes!

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That nose looks really long, would love to see how the car length compares to the stub-nosed Merc...

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They should have kept the yellow wheel rims, they would have made the car look even better.

Funny this because just two days ago I told my mum on the phone I missed the Jaguar green livery and along come Caterham with one that looks even better.

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The deal on Ge was related to engine sales to the airline. My mate works for Ge and he told me about it last year.

yeah i work for rolls-royce and i would love for them to make a deal with a team so i could blag s hospitality day out of it.... Yeah the airline chooses the aircraft from say boring or airbus etc, and depending on the type of aircraft have a choice between usually GE or Rolls-Royce engines, it tends to be biased toward territory for example American airlines if they can help it always choose GE where as airlines like virgin will choose R-R. So deals like GE have struck can make a big difference % wise to the market share.

That nose is very long, hope the drivers can judge the length when driving close to another car

My thoughts too.

so there only 2 companies in the world that produce aircraft engines ?

Obviously not,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_engines

However GE and RR are the two main players in passenger plane engine markets. Most of the passengers planes flying with major airlines will have engines powered by either. The third major player is Pratt and Whitney but they are a long way behind GE and RR thanks to the former developing engines for the new 787 and future A350 and the latter making the A380 power units.

But back on topic..

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That first photo where their faces are in the sunlight looks rather unprofessional. I know launches have become less ostentatious, but that's taking it too far.

said it for me thank you

Ok, so the GE/Airbus sponsor matter is pretty much cleared out. We can see also the $$$ behind Van der Garde's signing, as the whole car is a big McGregor/McG poster.

So, then, what's Pic brought to the team as sponsors? because I can't really identify nothing out of the ordinary on the car since last year. I know that Pic is allegedly backed-up by the Lagardere group, which is a pretty big consortium apparently - but either I'm blind as a bat, or I just didn't see any Lagardere sponsorship on the Marussia...nor on this year's Caterham, for that matter...?

LE. Nevermind, I think I got a lead. It seems that EADS (which initially I thought was on the same boat as Airbus/GE, in it for the avionics supplied) has in fact some stocks , thru SOGEADE, from Lagardere. Complicated things, this marketing issues. Why couldn't they just put up "Paris Match" as a commercial?

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...and also Jenson Button fan.

EADS (aka EADS Astrium) also do a lot of space work so could be a technology tie in there somewhere. They make satellites, rockets, etc for the European Space Agency and private customers.

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If they got rid of the yellow it would remind me of the first Jordan in '91.

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Give 'em hell Dani!

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Might be a random question but why is this car called the CT-03 and not CT-02? In 2012 it was the Caterham CT-01 so is there any reason why they would miss out CT-02 ?

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Yea doesn't make sense. If they wanted to skip numbers so the number to match how many years the team has been in existence then shouldn't be the CT-04?

Maybe someone already owns the copyright on CT02.

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Disclaimer: The above post maybe tongue in cheek.

"I thought I'd get your theories, mock them, then embrace my own. The usual."

I know you were being tounge in cheek, but I decided to do a quick search and this was the third result.
http://iptq.com/iptq-mirror/ct02.htm
I wouldn't want anything of mine associated with that.

I wasn't actually. I wouldn't be surprised if they got a letter from someone like Ferrari did with the F150.

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Disclaimer: The above post maybe tongue in cheek.

"I thought I'd get your theories, mock them, then embrace my own. The usual."