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'Caterham was Petrov's only option'
Vitaly Petrov's Formula One could be over after the Russian driver failed to secure a race-seat with Caterham for this season.
Despite his Brazilian GP drive assuring Caterham of tenth place in last year's Constructors' Championship, the team did not offer the 28-year-old a new deal.
Petrov, though, had held out hope but that ended last Friday when the team confirmed Giedo van der Garde as Charles Pic's 2013 team-mate.
"For Vitaly, it was the only possibility to stay in F1 in 2013," his manager Oksana Kosachenko told R-Sport.
"We knew this a few days ago, about the decision of the team, which we have to respect. I wouldn't say we didn't expect it."
Kosachenko is now...
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