Driver

Giedo van der Garde is making his F1 debut with Caterham, after a season as a reserve driver and a driver for its GP2 team where he won twice. The Dutchman is one of the older rookies on the grid, having tested in 2007 for Spyker and Force India. Along with GP2, van der Garde won the World Karting Championship in 2002 and raced in Asia with the GP2 Asia series. Van der Garde's appointment to the F1 team is the natural step for the Dutch driver after he spent 2012 competing with Caterham Racing in the GP2 Series, combining his GP2 season, in which he scored six podiums and two race wins, with six FP1 outings for the F1 team.