Daily #F1 News and comment: Friday 4th October 2013

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Nielsen leaves Caterham: This for most of you is not news now, but as Christmas approaches I’m not always able to jump on every breaking news story and discuss it immediately. What I find interesting is that due to a few chats I’ve had recently with Caterham people, I’ve gained the distinct impression that the team feels it is lacking leadership and feeling a little disjointed.

If you check my daily posts over the last week or so I’ve suggested regularly that Marussia appear a stronger until going forward and that I could easily see them beating Caterham next year when they get the very clever Williams KERS system up and running.

For those of you who are not aware of Nielsen, here’s a quick potted history of his F1 experience. He joined F1 in 1986 with Lotus and worked his way up to become Quartermaster for the team. He joined Tyrrel as part of the management team and was with them until they shut up shop in 1998.

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