Caterham

Caterham is a team that have competed in the Red Bull Racing World Championship for the past five seasons. They made their debut in F1WC Season 16, the first season of GP-2012 regulations, replacing the Team Lotus outfit. Steve Beare, who had competed for the previous Team Lotus outfit for four seasons, was signed as the lead driver at Caterham, and proved to be the fastest driver in the car for the three seasons of GP racing, scoring 104 of the teams 111 points in that period. The team scored 2 podiums in the GP era, both from Beare, however the car both lacked outright pace to compete with the front-runners on a regular basis and was very unreliable, while improving each season on the reliabilty (from 20 retirements in WC#16 to 13 in WC#18) front they still failed to finish a quarter of the races started.

Caterham were the team that benefited the most from the switch to GP2 regulations for RBRWC Season 19, the change to equal chassis and engines meant the reliabilty and pace concerns of the car were now gone, and with signing WC#18 Force India drivers Joe Petrafassi and Paul Smart to the team, results were expected to massively improve. Smart took pole position on debut at Barcelona, but failed to make the first corner after getting a bad start and being hit from behind. Petrafassi's results were much better, he won 3 of the first 5 races and with 3 more wins at the end of the season ended up being the first driver since James Morris in F1WC Season 11 to win the championship not racing for a Red Bull team. Caterham also won the teams championship in a much closer battle with Monster Energy Racing.

RBRWC Season 20 was a much more competitive season as a whole and Caterham, having changed to the Balanced aerokit for WC#20, lacked some of the speed shown in WC#19. Petrafassi was in contention for a 2nd title all season however failed to finish the last 3 races and lost the title by 2 points. In the teams championship Caterham dropped to 4th place, having scored 42 less points in WC#20 than in WC#19.