Sauber
Full Name | British Airways Sauber F1 Team |
Base | Hinwil, Switzerland |
Founder(s) | Template:SUI Peter Sauber |
Team Principal(s) | Monisha Kaltenborn |
Technical Director | Template:USA Brendon Crane (Chief Designer) |
Current Lineup | |
Pastor Maldonado Template:GBR Dean Stoneman |
Formula One |
Noted Former Drivers | |
Kamui Kobayashi Evgeny Restov |
Sauber F1 Team is a Swiss Formula One team based in Hinwil, Switzerland. The team was founded by Peter Sauber and first entered Formula One in the mid-1990s.
Between 2006 and 2010 the team was owned and operated by German auto manufacturer BMW and ran under the BMW Sauber banner.
Formula One
1998
By 1998, Sauber were a year into their thinly-veiled partnership with Ferrari and began the season with the partnership of Jean Alesi and Daniel Moreno. The pair would not exactly light the field on fire, the best result coming from Alesi - a fifth place finish in Monte-Carlo.
At the British Grand Prix, Alesi and Moreno would be ousted and replaced by the British pairing of Eddie Irvine and Tom Douglas. Douglas would take Sauber's best finish of 1998, with a fourth place finish at the season-ending Portuguese Grand Prix.