F1 back-markers who deserve a seat next season

Giedo van der Garde - Caterham

Geido van der Garde even though outperformed by his teammate has a fair chance of making it to the 2014 season

Not an unknown face to Formula One having been a test driver for Super Aguri F1 team in 2007 and for Force India in 2008, the 28 year old Dutchman has lost out to his teammate and Jules Bianchi in the Marussia. A best finish of 14th to his name in Hungary, he had 3 retirements to his name-2 of them being collisions(with Mark Webber in Canada and second with Bianchi) and a wheel problem in Spain. He also managed to get himself into two Q2 sessions in Monaco and Belgium(where he set one of the fastest times of anyone in Q1). While in the first half he clearly lost out to his experienced teammate, he pulled back things in his favour by beating his three competitors in Hungary, Belgium and Singapore and shown a kind of consistency associated with him in GP2. He probably has a 60% percent chance of making it to the 2014 grid (with rumours of him having different options available) but has competition in Heikki Kovalainen, who is eyeing a return to Formula One, if Caterham remained the only option.