McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh has praised the attitude of Sergio ‘Checo’ Perez in the wake of the team’s disappointing start to 2013. The 23-year-old joined the Woking-based team from Sauber ahead of the season, but with the MP4-28 so far failing to live up expectations, Perez and team mate Jenson Button have been unable to fight for race wins
Sauber is confident it has made progress with solving the rear-end instability problem that held it back early in the season.
Sauber will have further updates for its C32 at next weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix
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Grab your phone, hit the record button and send a short video with your question to AskTheDriver@sauber-motorsport.com – it’s not rocket science and it’s great fun! Does Nico have a girlfriend and, if so, how often does he see her? Is Esteban’s left leg more articulated than his right leg because of braking
Sauber aims to qualify well in Monaco to challenge for third points finish of F1 2013
Inside Grand Prix News looks back at the F1 2013 Spanish Grand Prix with a particular focus on Sauber’s Esteban Gutierrez, who set the fastest lap on race day…
Round six of the championship sees the paddock arrive in Monte Carlo for arguably the most famous event on the calendar, the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2013. So how are the teams preparing for the unique challenge that is the Principality’s streets? Those involved discuss their prospects for the race
Round six of the championship sees the paddock arrive in Monte Carlo for arguably the most famous event on the calendar, the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2013. So how are the teams preparing for the unique challenge that is the Principality’s streets?
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Welcome to episode 5 of our Cutaway Insights series! In each of these 15 ‘shorties’, we will pick one particular car part or subject and Chief Designer Matt Morris, Nico Hülkenberg or Esteban Gutiérrez will give a brief explanation about how stuff works and what it does.
After a rocky start to his F1 career in the four weekends till now, Esteban Gutirrez was relieved to have a decent day at the office for Sauber in Spain.
Daniel Ricciardo went on to claim a solitary point for Toro Rosso in Spain, but Jean-Eric Vergne’s run effectively ended in a mid-race pit lane clash with a Sauber.
Daniel Ricciardo went on to claim a solitary point for Toro Rosso in Spain, but Jean-Eric Vergne’s run effectively ended in a mid-race pit lane clash with a Sauber.
Sauber F1 Team drivers Esteban Gutiérrez and Nico Hülkenberg finished today's Spanish GP in 11th and 15th places. Nico Hülkenberg’s race in particular was ruined by an early release at a pit stop, followed by a stop and go penalty.
The Spanish GP has rarely been won by anyone outside the front two rows, but that doesn’t mean that Sauber, Williams, Toro Rosso and the rest of the field haven’t got their sights on Sunday success.
Spanish GP: Sauber qualifying quotes
Sauber F1 Team driver Nico Hülkenberg ended up 15th in today's qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix, just five hundredths of a second slower than P13. Esteban Gutiérrez finished in 16th. On the positive side, the updates the team brought to Barcelona are working as expected.
Ferrari’s Felipe Massa and Sauber’s Esteban Gutierrez have been handed three-place grid penalties by the Spanish stewards for impeding during Saturday’s qualifying session for the Barcelona race. After reviewing the evidence, the stewards decided Massa had blocked Red Bull’s Mark Webber during Q2 and Gutierrez had hindered the progress of Lotus’s Kimi Raikkonen during Q1. The Brazilian had qualified in sixth but now drops to ninth, whilst the Mexican had been set to start the race from 16th but will now occupy P19 on the Spanish grid.