Sauber

Peter Sauber with Pedro de la Rosa and Kamui Kobayashi

Active years: 1993-2005, 2010-

History

Sauber entered F1 in 1993 using engines supplied by Mercedes. It was originally believed the team would become Mercedes’ works F1 outfit but that plan changed when Mercedes became engine suppliers to McLaren in 1995.

Sauber remained as an independent F1 team and was the first destination for several upcoming drivers including Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa.

Team owner Peter Sauber sold up to BMW at the end of 2005 but five years later he was back in charge of the team once more after the car manufacturer withdrew from the sport.

Although the team has returned to using Ferrari engines, as it did before 2006, the ‘BMW’ portion of its name has been retained and it officially competes as ‘BMW Sauber’.

Headquarters

Sauber are based at Hinwil, Switzerland (above).

Major team personnel

Team principal – Peter Sauber
Managing director – Monisha Kaltenborn
Technical director – Willy Rampf
Chief designer – Christoph Zimmermann
Head of aerodynamics – Seamus Mullarkey
Team manager – Beat Zehnder
Head of track engineering – Giampaolo Dall’Ara
Race engineer (Pedro de la Rosa) – Paul Russell
Race engineer (Kamui Kobayashi) – Francesco Nenci
Chief mechanic – Urs Kuratle
Marketing director – Alex Sauber
Head of communication – Hanspeter Brack

Drivers

Complete list of Sauber F1 drivers

Previous identities: BMW (2006-2009)

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