British team Caterham says that it wants to build cars for customers following its toe-in-the-water attempt at Le Mans with Greaves Motorsport this weekend.
The team has embedded engineers with Greaves, which runs a Nissan-powered Zytek.
Caterham’s personnel is led by Caterham Group CTO, Mike Gascoyne, who said that participation in Le Mans 2013 was the perfect opportunity for the Group to see first-hand how they could apply its existing expertise and facilities to a Sports Prototype programme.
Within the Caterham Group we have a great deal of experienced personnel with a wide range of technical expertise – from powertrain development to carbon composite design,’ he said.
We have the tools, the talent and the heritage to do the job in a marketplace that is currently light on existing players so it makes sense for us to go and see first-hand how we might take advantage of business opportunity that fits with our capabilities.
Between Caterham Technology and Caterham Composites, Caterham Group’s experienced personnel are specialists in a variety of areas that would lend themselves to developing a Sports Prototype programme.
The Group’s core personnel include members of staff who have delivered previous LMP programmes and are also working on a current Sports Prototype project for an external customer.
With the ACO’s cost control model for the LMP vehicle market, a Sports Prototype programme would also fit within Caterham’s modus operandi of affordable, quick-to-market solutions.
British team Caterham says that it wants to build cars for customers following its toe-in-the-water attempt at Le Mans with Greaves Motorsport this weekend.
The team has embedded engineers with Greaves, which runs a Nissan-powered Zytek.