Tony Fernandes reckons his team can achieve their first point this season - and it will be on merit, not another's misfortune.
Caterham have had a solid start to pre-season testing in their new CT01, which covered more than four race distances over the four days at Jerez.
In fact, the only real issue that has cost the team was a damaged starter shaft which resulted in an early shower on Day One.
"(The number of laps completed) is something we never came close to last season," Fernandes told PA Sport.
"For that reason we really have arrived as a Formula One team, and to accomplish it in two years is something I'm extremely proud of.
"The start we have made in testing has already far exceeded my expectations."
The Malaysian businessman added that he's confident that this season - his team's third in F1 - will yield their first World Championship point.
"For me, if we'd scored a point last year then it would have been a lucky one based on other people's misfortunes," he said.
"This year, and I know it's only the first test, but we can really go into a race and think, yeah, we have a chance.
"That's based on what we have seen so far because there are still another two tests to go. But you would tend to think a team like ourselves, from where we are coming from, has a chance to improve further than established teams.
"We've CFD (computational fluid dynamics) up and running, we're ramping up for a 24-7 wind tunnel, and so there is every chance."
But, having said that, he concedes that lap times set during testing often do not count for very much later in the game.
"The first test I went to Sauber looked so damn fast, and then they ended up somewhere where we were. So it's very hard to tell what people are doing, with tyres, fuel and everything else.
"You would think we should again be ahead of the other new teams (Marussia and HRT), and at the moment we seem to be giving one or two of the established teams something to think about."
