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Caterham F1 Team has launched Caterham Racing Academy, a driver development program that gives a clear route to Formula 1 for future champions and enables young motorsport talent from around the world to excel in all the attributes required by racing drivers to achieve success in 21st century motorsport.
Caterham Racing Academy drivers will have a clear path from the junior formulae right up to F1 and each participant has a bespoke program created for them to enable them to learn and develop in both practical and virtual motorsport environments.
The Academy drivers are given personalised development plans that cover every aspect of a modern racing driver's life, including detailed work on race craft and engineering feedback, mental and physical training and media and sponsor relations, all designed to help them achieve their own potential.
Finance plays a key role in all forms of motorsport and all Caterham Racing Academy drivers have access to a performance target based prize fund each season. This fund is designed to reward excellence against agreed targets and to provide part-funding for the drivers' progression into more senior formulae, helping them focus on their racing activities.
The prize fund will make a contribution from 10% to 50% towards the drivers' season costs, a substantial investment in an extremely competitive financial environment.
In addition to the financial rewards available, exposure through the F1 team's digital and social media channels and the right for all Academy drivers to compete in Caterham F1 Team's distinctive green and yellow livery, the Academy drivers are also given direct exposure to the many different priorities F1 drivers have to manage on and off track.
The selection criteria for drivers wishing to join the Caterham Racing Academy are simple. All drivers must have finished above a pre-agreed championship position or over a suitable assessment period, and be competing in any one of the following championships:
- Formula Renault 2.0
- F4
- Formula Renault NEC / WEC
- Formula Renault Eurocup
- Euro F3
- GP3
- World Series by Renault
- GP2
From just two drivers for the 2010 season, the Academy now has six drivers on the books in 2013:
- Alexander Rossi (USA): Caterham F1 Team Reserve Driver, competing with Caterham Racing in GP2 and with Caterham Motorsport at Le Mans 2013 in LMP2
- Sergio Canamasas (Spain): Caterham F1 Team Development Driver and Caterham Racing GP2 driver
- Matt Parry (UK): Formula Renault NEC with Fortec Motorsports
- Aurelien Panis (France): Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup with RC Formula
- Weiron Tan (Malaysia): Protyre Formula Renault BARC with Fortec Motorsports
- Daim Hishamuddin (Singapore): European KF3, Rotax Junior Asia championship
Caterham F1 Team has launched Caterham Racing Academy, a driver development program that gives a clear route to Formula 1 for future champions and enables young motorsport talent from around the world to excel in all the attributes required by racing drivers to achieve success in 21st century motorsport.
Caterham Racing Academy drivers will have a clear path from the junior formulae right up to F1 and each participant has a bespoke program created for them to enable them to learn and develop in both practical and virtual motorsport environments.
The Academy drivers are given personalised development plans that cover every aspect of a modern racing driver's life, including detailed work on race craft and engineering feedback, mental and physical training and media and sponsor relations, all designed to help them achieve their own potential.
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Finance plays a key role in all forms of motorsport and all Caterham Racing Academy drivers have access to a performance target based prize fund each season. This fund is designed to reward excellence against agreed targets and to provide part-funding for the drivers' progression into more senior formulae, helping them focus on their racing activities.
The prize fund will make a contribution from 10% to 50% towards the drivers' season costs, a substantial investment in an extremely competitive financial environment.
In addition to the financial rewards available, exposure through the F1 team's digital and social media channels and the right for all Academy drivers to compete in Caterham F1 Team's distinctive green and yellow livery, the Academy drivers are also given direct exposure to the many different priorities F1 drivers have to manage on and off track.
The selection criteria for drivers wishing to join the Caterham Racing Academy are simple. All drivers must have finished above a pre-agreed championship position or over a suitable assessment period, and be competing in any one of the following championships:
- Formula Renault 2.0
- F4
- Formula Renault NEC / WEC
- Formula Renault Eurocup
- Euro F3
- GP3
- World Series by Renault
- GP2
From just two drivers for the 2010 season, the Academy now has six drivers on the books in 2013:
- Alexander Rossi (USA): Caterham F1 Team Reserve Driver, competing with Caterham Racing in GP2 and with Caterham Motorsport at Le Mans 2013 in LMP2
- Sergio Canamasas (Spain): Caterham F1 Team Development Driver and Caterham Racing GP2 driver
- Matt Parry (UK): Formula Renault NEC with Fortec Motorsports
- Aurelien Panis (France): Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup with RC Formula
- Weiron Tan (Malaysia): Protyre Formula Renault BARC with Fortec Motorsports
- Daim Hishamuddin (Singapore): European KF3, Rotax Junior Asia championship