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Caterham Group

Caterham Group is the parent company for a range of automotive and motor racing businesses.

Caterham Racing was Caterham F1's feeder team, and competes in the GP2 Series since 2011. The team was sold in October 2014 to Status Grand Prix.

Kamarudin Bin Meranun, Co-Chairman of Caterham Group, confirmed on 13 October 2013 that the newly formed Caterham Moto Racing Team will contest the Moto2™ World Championship from the start of the 2014 season. Dato' Kamarudin also confirmed that American rider Josh Herrin will be one of the team's two riders in 2014, and that a technical partnership has been signed with Suter Racing Technology to jointly develop a Caterham-Suter chassis over the next two years.

Created in 2011, Caterham Technology and Innovation (CTI) is part of the Caterham Group of companies and based at the Caterham Technology Centre in Hingham, Norfolk. The company is leading the development of a new range of vehicles and products for the Caterham brand as well as providing engineering services to customers across the automotive, motorsport, aerospace and marine industries.

Housing the companies new design office and workshops, the Hingham facility also continues to be a centre of excellence for composite component production and inspection - for both internal and external projects. As part of the group Caterham technology is working with the Caterham F1 Team (Leafield, UK) and Caterham Composites (Hürth, Germany) offering a broad range of simulation, analysis and specialist test facilities to support specific project requirements.

Mike Gascoyne formerly involved in setting up the F1 Team became CEO of Caterham Technology in early 2012 as well as his role as CEO of Caterham Composites.

On 5 November 2012, Renault announced a 50:50 joint venture with Caterham Technology aimed at bringing back alife the Alpine brand in the form of the Alpine-Caterham sports car

On 27 November 2014, CTI announced that it would close its business in Hingham with 68 job losses. The company’s chief executive Graham MacDonald is said to have taken the decision to shut down its engineering and technology arm near Wymondham because it was no longer financially viable.

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