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New injury doubt after Wehrlein crash

 

Pascal Wehrlein will return to hospital in the coming days, following another rollover crash.

The Sauber driver had to miss the start of the 2017 season after injuring his back in a crash during the 'race of champions' winter event.

Now, in Monaco, Wehrlein was once again able to walk away from a similar rollover crash, before slamming McLaren fill-in Jenson Button for the "stupid" overtaking attempt.

The German broadcaster RTL reports that Wehrlein experienced back pain in the aftermath.

"Yes, I'll have to do a scan next week," the 22-year-old confirmed.

Wehrlein is also quoted as saying by Brazil's Globo: "I hope to be ok.

"I hit my head on the barrier again, so I will have to do a new CT scan of my back. We'll see.

"It seems ok, but since I had this injury, I'm not sure," he added.

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Monisha Kaltenborn has admitted Sauber may take a driver from Honda's talent pool for 2018.

Earlier, when regular Pascal Wehrlein was injured, the German was replaced by Antonio Giovinazzi, who is engine supplier Ferrari's official reserve driver.

But Sauber has subsequently done a deal to be powered by Honda power units for 2018, and Giovinazzi has gone on to ink a Friday practice deal with the Ferrari 'B team' Haas.

So for 2018, it appears possible Sauber will take on a Honda-linked driver.

"At the end of the day it's the team's decision, and also the team's responsibility to have good drivers," said team boss Kaltenborn.

But she also said that "in the past" Sauber has discussed the issue of driver choice with its engine supplier.

"And we have taken drivers from our engine supplier because it was the right thing to do," Kaltenborn explained.

"It's something we're open to and we'll see how it pans out."

As for a Honda-related sponsorship deal, Kaltenborn said it is "far too early" to speculate about that.

 

Ako vrate Sato Takuma-sana, ja sam za. Ali osim njega Honda je prilicno tanka sto se tice vozackog talenta. Kobajasi, Nakadjima i ostali Japanci koji lice na nesto su svi iz Tojotinog tabora.

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RIP McLaren then
 

According to Sauber-Teamchef Monshia Kaltenborn, the next updates, which are going to be used in the Austrian and Britain Grand Prix, would improve the car significantly.
The team from switzerland is aware that the 2017 car can't create enough downforce and because of that lacks power. Therefore hard work was done in the last weeks.
According to Kaltenborn especially the development of the chassis would be important since the team counts on the ferrari-PU until the end of the season.
"The car isn't as strong as it should be", she explained. "The R&D Team has worked on increasing the competitiveness of the car. That's our goal. The Team knows it and its up to them to make a step forward on the upcoming updates which are going to be used in Silverstone and Spielberg."
"The first updates are available in Spielberg. The rest follows in Silverstone and Budapest. It should be a significant step forward. After that we'll see where we stand."
The team currently sits on the 9th place of the constructors championship because of Pascal Wehrleins 8th place in Spain. In the last 2 races the team couldn't keep up with the competitors.
Kaltenborn says that the updates have the potential to boost the team back in a intense fight for the mid-field. "That's our goal", she told. "We couldn't establish ourselves in the mid-field because we didn't have enough time. Nevertheless we exactly want to get there."
"The challenge lies in front of our R&D team and they take the challenge. Now they need to proof that they can beat it."

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Svakako cemo ih oprati u Madjarskoj, to je jedina staza na kojoj sam siguran u bodove (pod uslovom da Honda ne ispusti dusu). Na "snagaskim" stazama cemo svakako biti iza njih, mozda ne u kvalifikacijama gde potrosnja goriva nije problem ali u trci svakako da.

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How to fix Sauber
June 19, 2017 by Joe Saward

A year ago Sauber was on the ropes. The Swiss team was struggling for money and in serious danger of not being able to continue. The team’s CEO (and then shareholder) Monisha Kaltenborn kept her head. A seasoned F1 veteran, having worked with Sauber since 2000 and having been team principal since 2010, she negotiated a deal for the team to be taken over by a Swiss asset management company called Longbow Finance SA.

Swiss financial companies are never very keen to discuss their financing, but it was clear that the first contact between Longbow and Sauber came via driver Marcus Ericsson, who had moved to the team with backing from Longbow. The Sauber investment that followed was separate to the Ericsson deal, although there were plenty of rumours suggesting that the money behind Longbow came from Sweden rather than Switzerland.

As part of the deal Peter Sauber stepped away from his team but Kaltenborn stayed on as CEO and team principal, under a board chaired by a Swiss financier called Pascal Picci, who has headed Longbow Finance since 2000. He arrived in the team having attended just one Grand Prix in his life and it seemed logical to leave the running of the team to people who knew what they were doing, although it must be said that the history of sport is littered with new team owners who arrive thinking they know all the answers and duly turn their teams into expensive failures. Picci seemed to be smarter than that and said that the long-term idea was to use the F1 team as a way to publicise Sauber’s expertise in aerodynamics, 3D prototyping and new materials to generate other business in other sectors, in much the same way as McLaren and Williams have been doing. This all seemed very sensible.

However, the key to any success in F1 remains performance and Sauber has a problem this year in that the car was conceived at a time when the team had no money and the decision was taken to use old Ferrari engines, to keep down costs and to ensure reliability. It was also taken because Sauber was already discussing doing a deal with Honda for 2018 and there was little point in spending money for what was inevitably going to be an interim season.

Last autumn the team hired a number of well-respected engineers, which was no mean achievement given that Sauber’s biggest problem has always been that it is located in the wrong place. Luring the best engineers to Switzerland has never been easy because a lot of F1’s best talents live happily in the Motorsport Valley in the UK and don’t want to uproot their families and move to the German-speaking part of Switzerland. Ferrari has struggled with the same problem in the past and has twice set up and then closed down technical offices in the UK. In any case, Ferrari is a little bit special given its legendary status. Most engineers want to work at Ferrari at some point. Scuderia Toro Rosso has had the same problem and so in the end it set up a technical centre at Bicester in the UK, where most of the development work is now being done.

Sauber has never done that and finding good technical people has been tough, even in the days when BMW was bankrolling the team. There have been a string of technical leaders since Willy Rampf left the team in early 2010, realising that things were going to be tough without BMW support. Initially James Key joined the team in April 2010 but he left in February 2012. There was no technical director until July 2015 when Mark Smith joined, although he left before the start of the 2016 season. The role was given this year to Germany’s Jorg Zander, a bit of a mystery man to many in F1 because of a career that involved a series of short stays at BAR, Williams, Sauber and then Honda (the old BAR revamped). After this became Brawn in 2009 Zander dropped out of the sport until 2015 when he joined Audi as its head of technology in sports car racing. That too was a short-lived move as Audi stopped its programme at the end of last year and Sauber grabbed him to lead the technical team. This year he has been quoted as saying that the team should be able to move up into the midfield, but this has not happened and updates have been late arriving. The race team did manage to score points in Spain, thanks to a clever strategy, but the upgrades which appeared in Monaco were a backward step and the cars were not fast enough to pull off another strategic coup. There is no question that the team’s problems are more than just horsepower and that there are handling deficiencies as well. With Honda coming to Hinwil, there is clearly a need for a better car and only time will tell if the team can deliver that.

Longbow has remained low profile thus far, as one would expect, but it is logical that the owners will want more performance, having invested their money in the team. Sauber is talking to other engineers to strengthen the challenge. The key is stability and selling newcomers on the idea that the team can move up the F1 ladder, Kaltenborn has done a decent job doing that, but it is not easy…

One might speculate that the recent rumours about a new team being put together in the UK could be related to Sauber’s new owners thinking that a UK technical department might be a good idea – but that is pure speculation on my part.

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Team principal Monisha Kaltenborn leaves Sauber!

eam principal Monisha Kaltenborn has apparently left Sauber after seven years at the helm, thus relinquishing her role as team principal and chied executive officer of teh Swiss outfit.

Kaltenborn took over as CEO of Sauber in 2010 when founder Peter Sauber bought back the team he had sold to BMW five years earlier.

Born in India but brought up in Austria, the 46-year-old with a master's degree in International Business Law was hired by Sauber in the late 1990s to look after its corporate and legal affairs.

She subsequently remained with the company, heading its legal department before she was entrusted with a management role in 2001.

In 2012, Peter Sauber transferred a third of the team's ownership to Kaltenborn who later sold her 33.3% stake when the team was taken over by Longbow Finance in July 2016.

Sources are reporting that Kaltenborn and team owner Longbow Financial may have been at loggerheads over how the team should be run.

It has been suggested that Longbow was keen on seeing Marcus Ericsson receive preferential treatment over team mate Pascal Wehrlein, a demand Kaltenborn was apparently reluctant to fulfill.

Motorpsort.com is reporting that former HRT team principal Colin Kolles is a possible candidate to replace Kaltenborn at Sauber.

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Izgleda da se napila pa se otvorila i otkrila više nego što treba..
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A meltdown in Hinwil
June 21, 2017 by Joe Saward

Just a couple of days ago I was writing about how Sauber needs stability to make progress, but it seems that the whole team has gone topsy-turvy in recent days with CEO and team principal Monisha Kaltenborn apparently set to depart, it seems because she is unhappy with the way that Sauber is being overseen by investment manager Pascal Picci, the chairman of the holding company. He is the front man for investors but it is not clear if they have played any significant role in the story.

The suggestion is that the two personalties were not getting on and that Kaltenborn felt that the chairman of the company was interferring in what she was trying to achieve. Whether she walked or was pushed is currently not clear but some sources say that the decision was mutual. There have been signs of stress in recent weeks with Kaltenborn trying to recruit new technical leadership and the owners wanting to stay with what they have. The word is that at the centre of the problem is the team’s technical director Jorg Zander, who has thus far failed to make much of an impact in his six months in the job. Updates failed to arrive in Spain and when they did appear in Monaco they were not apparently an improvement.

It remains to be seen who will take over the role, although the logical thing to do would be for the team to contact one of the people who has immediate experience in the management of F1 teams at this level. One thinks, specifically, of Dave Ryan and Frederic Vasseur, but the German angle could also bring Jost Capito into play.

The big problem for the team is whether or not the people who were recruited to Sauber by Kaltenborn will stay if she is departing. As previously explained, getting people to move to Switzerland is a big problem.

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Šta priča gluposti, Jorg mora u minimalnom vremenu prepraviti onu kantu od šasije C35 koja se bukvalno nije apgrejtala cele godine. Bukvalno nemoguća misija a oni očekuju da od babe stvori devojku. Onaj nazovi fail u Monaku i Španiji je samo nuspojava agresivnog pristupa jer Jorg mora radikalno razvijati šasiju C36. Matora Ferarijeva PJ samo dodaje ulja na vatru...

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Službena objava
 

Statement by the Chairman regarding Monisha Kaltenborn
21 June 2017
Hinwil.

“Longbow Finance SA regrets to announce that, by mutual consent and due to diverging views of the future of the company, Monisha Kaltenborn will leave her positions with the Sauber Group effective immediately. We thank her for many years of strong leadership, great passion for the Sauber F1 Team and wish her the very best for the future. Her successor will be announced shortly; in the meantime we wish the team the best of luck in Azerbaijan.”

Pascal Picci
Chairman of the Board
Sauber Holding AG

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Oh, what a mess…
June 22, 2017 by Joe Saward

Last night, at strange hours that have little logic in the media world, Sauber issued two press statements: the first denying reports that its two drivers were being treated differently; the second announcing the departure of Monisha Kaltenborn, citing “diverging views of the future of the company”. This was, as we say in English, rather arse-about-face. The statements were issued in the name of Pascal Picci, the team chairman. This is strange. Picci, as previously mentioned in an earlier post, can count less than 10 Grands Prix attended in his life (I have seen him at a few races, but I doubt he’s in double figures yet), which does lead one to question whether it is wise to have divergent views from a team principal who has been around the sport for 20-years and is one of the sharper brains to be found in the F1 paddock. It was this intellectual ability that led to Peter Sauber appointing Monisha Kaltenborn as the sport’s first female team principal, and giving her a third of the shares in the team. Peter Sauber could never be accused of playing to the gallery by appointing a woman to the job, in order to be politically correct. He chose Monisha because she was the best person for the job. Thus the divergence of views with the chairman does not sound like a very clever reason to split the team from its motive force. Picci may be very skilled at managing other assets, but Monisha is an asset and, if she is walking away from the team that she obviously loves, she has obviously not been managed very well.

As to what happens in the future, who can say? The Switzerland problem remains, although some ambitious folk would move anywhere to become a team principal. The obvious names have already been mentioned but I forgot to include Graeme Lowdon of Manor, a man who knows how to do the job and is available and wants to run an F1 team again. There have also been reports about Colin Kolles, who has been out of the F1 game for a few years but might also consider the position if it was offered to him. Others might be wary of a chairman who ditches the pilot while the team is still in choppy waters.

We will have to see how all of this develops but the big fear is that the departure of Kaltenborn will lead to the team delaminating. There are the hard core Sauber folk, the locals who have worked there for years, but the teams needs more than that to survive and it will take a good leader – and good management of that leader – to get where it ought to be.

When all is said and done, there is no law to stop people wasting their money by thinking they know best. It’s not the first time we have seen that happen – and it probably won’t be the last.

Kaltenborn’s departure does add to the increasing feeling that being a team principal is increasingly like being a football manager. That’s not very healthy for the sport because success takes time, money and good understanding of the sport and how to run a team.

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Vasseur closing in on Sauber F1 team boss job

ART boss Frederic Vasseur is closing in on a team principal role at the Sauber F1 team after he was spotted at the Swiss outfit's Hinwil base on Thursday.

The Swiss squad parted company with team boss Monisha Kaltenborn earlier this week, citing "diverging views" regarding the future of the team.

Vasseur joins a list that includes others with recent experience of F1 team management, including the likes of former Manor men Dave Ryan and Graeme Lowdon, former VW motorsport boss Jost Capito and ex-F1 team boss Colin Kolles, although the last-named is understood to have indicated that he is not interested in the job.

Vasseur ran Renault's Enstone operation last year, but departed at the end of the season after an apparent clash of philosophies with Cyril Abiteboul.

However, he demonstrated that he was willing to focus on running an F1 team while delegating the day-to-day running of ART to his management staff.

Sauber would in theory be more convenient for him than working in the UK, as Hinwil is only 536km by road from ART's French base.

ART currently competes in F2 and GP3, having stopped its DTM programme at the end of 2016, although Vasseur is not with the F2 team in Baku this weekend.

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There is still no announcement with regard to the role of Sauber team principal. The indications continue to suggest that the most likely candidate (or perhaps one should say the team’s target) is France’s Frédéric Vasseur, the former Renault team principal, who left the French operation over the winter, because of “a different vision with the management of the team”. Vasseur believes that a team principal can only be successful if there is a single vision for the organisation and Sauber will need to convince him that their’s is the right vision – which clearly was not the case with the recently-departed Monisha Kaltenborn.

Vasseur has been very successful on the junior formulae but still has a great deal on his plate. He runs all of ART Grand Prix’s activities in Formula 2 and GP3, while also putting together a team to run SMP Racing’s planned WEC programme in 2018, not to mention overseeing Spark Racing Technology, making all the chassis for the Formula E championship. Although he has a good solid support staff, notably ART Team Manager and Managing Director Sebastian Philippe, he is still a man with plenty on his plate and knows that working as an F1 team principal is a fulltime job.

Elsewhere, the word is that Hinwil has hired a new chief designer in Luca Furbatto, a graduate of the Politecnico di Torino, who started with Tyrrell in F1 from 1998, before moving to BAR, Toyota (where he worked with Sauber technical director Jorg Zander for a brief period) before joining McLaren for 10 years in 2001. He moved to Toro Rosso as chief designer for three years and in 2015 became chief designer of Manor. He is believed to have been recruited by Kaltenborn.

It is not clear how he will fit with Sauber’s chief designer Eric Gandelin, who has been in Hinwil since 2002, when he joined the Swiss team from Prost Grand Prix. In recent months, the team has also hired Ian Wright as its Head of Vehicle Performance. He is a former Mercedes and McLaren engineer.

It will be interesting to see how the technical side of Sauber develops from here.

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Sauber is set to announce Frederic Vasseur as its new team boss.

Just prior to the recent grand prix in Baku, the Swiss team's new owners suddenly ousted boss Monisha Kaltenborn.

And Vasseur, who this year has been running his Formula 2 team after leaving Renault at the end of last season, subsequently had talks with Sauber chairman Pascal Picci at Hinwil.

"We are in discussions with Vasseur, but nothing is official," Picci told Blick newspaper. "There are other candidates."

But Luis Vasconcelos, a respected F1 correspondent, now says the deal between Sauber and Frenchman Vasseur is done.

"Sauber is expected to make it public during the Austrian grand prix weekend," he wrote in the Finnish newspaper Turun Sanomat.

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Another key Sauber member has left the Swiss F1 team.

Just before the Baku grand prix a fortnight ago, team boss Monisha Kaltenborn was ousted by the new owners.

And now, the Swiss newspaper Blick reports that communications boss Robert Hopoltseder has also left Sauber.

"I had been dealing with Monisha's departure every day," Hopoltseder said.

It is believed Sauber will announce in Austria this weekend that Kaltenborn's replacement as boss will be Frederic Vasseur, the former Renault chief.