In a nutshell, Japanese racer Kamui Kobayashi finds the idea of driving a GP2 car rather than his CT05 to be more competitive as a result of their performances right after two pre-season tests. Kobayashi’s fastest lap was 1m39.8s in the Bahrain test which is 4/10 of a second slower than last year’s GP2 pole at the same circuit.

Kamui Kobayashi has focused in his pursuit of helping Caterham get better speed for the entire pre-season test using Caterham’s car that is powered by Renault. Other teams powered by Renault are on the other hand focused in making their cars more reliable. For Kobayashi, it’s the speed that matters.
While most Renault-powered teams are focusing on making their cars reliable at the moment, Kobayashi is keen to help Caterham find some more speed at next week’s final pre-season test. As Kobayashi said, “Time is very limited, and we need to think about reliability, but also performance. We have to try as much as we can.” What Kobayashi is driving at is pushing for better team performance and not just bank on the car’s reliability.
It seems that our Japanese F1 bet has well-rounded and balanced ideas on how he can achieve his goals in driving for Caterham in 2014 Formula One. I strongly agree with him because machines will always be at the beck and call of its user-master. It’s still him who holds the wheel; it’s just like people ruing over their destinies, right?
Let me end this with a Kobayashi quote which I find to be said with rich underlying tones of a warrior’s fighting spirit: “I’m not just thinking about finishing the race, of course I also need performance…this year is the biggest chance for this team.”