BMW Sauber F1

 
The team was sold to BMW in 2005, and competed as BMW Sauber from 2006 to 2009, scoring one victory |  In its 13 seasons in the sport, the Swiss-based team has yet to win a race as a privateer entry

FACTFILE

Name: BMW Sauber F1
Founded: Peter Sauber
Headquarters: Switzerland
No. Of Races: 215
No. Of Podiums: 6
Total Points: 195
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BMW Sauber F1The BMW-Sauber team is competing in the 2010 Formula One season despite the departure of constructors BMW. With BMW managing only one victory in four seasons, courtesy Robert Kubica, the manufacturer decided to pull out of the sport at the end of last year. Founder Peter Sauber rescued the team from being dissolved completely following the BMW pullout. Sauber has been in the business of Formula One since 1993 when he started with a tie-up with Mercedes in its debut season.

2005 was the last time when the privateer team competed fielding Felipe Massa and 1997 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve in its driver line-up. As a private outfit, the Peter Sauber-led squad has not registered a race win against its name. However, despite that fact, the team has persisted for 13 long years collecting an odd podium occasionally.

In more than a decade of racing, the Hinwill-based team has never finished worse than eighth in the championship and it achieved its highest position in the constructors’ standing in 2001 (4th place).

For the 2010 season, the team has employed the experienced Pedro de la Rosa who has had lengthy spells in a Formula One car as a McLaren test driver. Kamui Kobayashi will fill in the second seat after the Japanese driver impressed in his first two races last year with the now defunct Toyota team.
Despite all its problems, Sauber unrelentingly rolled on into the new season with its car, the C29 and the F1 journey continues, unscathed, for Peter Sauber and his men.

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BMW Sauber F1 - HEAD TO HEAD (TEAMS RACED AGAINst)

According to stats...

  • The team was sold to BMW in 2005, and competed as BMW Sauber from 2006 to 2009, scoring one victory
  • In its 13 seasons in the sport, the Swiss-based team has yet to win a race as a privateer entry

QUOTES ON BMW SAUBER F1

I am convinced that the new team has a very good future in Formula One, whose current transformation with new framework conditions will benefit the private teams.
-Peter Sauber



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