Sauber was founded by Peter Sauber in the 70s of the twentieth century. 

Sauber is a Swiss racing team that competes in the Formula One World Championship under the name of Alfa Romeo. The team was active between 1993 and 2005, when it was taken over by BMW and continued under the name BMW Sauber in 2006. When BMW withdrew in 2009, it paved the way for Sauber to return in 2010. In 2019, the Sauber team continued under the name Alfa Romeo Racing, which was already the team's title sponsor in 2018.

Alfa Romeo ended its partnership with Sauber and left Formula 1 as the Sauber team prepares as "Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber" to become Audi's factory team in 2026.

 

Headquarters, HinwilSwitzerland, 1993-2025

c29

The Sauber C29 (also known as BMW Sauber C29) was a Formula One racing car which was used by the BMW Sauber F1 Team in the 2010 Formula One season. It was unveiled on January 31, at Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia.

This was the first Sauber Formula One car that uses fully fledged Ferrari engines since the Petronas-badged C24 in 2005.

The chassis was designed by Willy Rampf, Christoph Zimmermann, Pierre Waché and Seamus Mullarkey with the car being powered with a customer Ferrari engine.

The engine was a Ferrari type 056 2.400 cc 90° V8. It was limited to 18.000 RPM, naturally aspirated and mid-mounted. It was mated to a seven-speed semi-automatic carbon-fibre sequential gearbox with reverse gear electronically controlled, quick-shift Limited-slip differential.

In the early part of the season, the car demonstrated very poor reliability and it was not until the seventh round of the year that the team scored a point with Kamui Kobayashi taking 10th in Turkey. In the second half of the year, the car gradually improved to a very respectable level and the team finished the season with 44 points, taking eighth in the Constructors' Championship.

At the start of 2010, the car had no sponsors, only the driver's name and nationality on the bodywork. As the year progressed, the team gained sponsors, including Burger King, Mad-Croc Energy Drink, スカルプ D ("Scalp D"), Takata, Certina, Onegai My Melody, Mitsubishi Electric and Converse.

 

nick heidfeld

2010

ferrari tipo 056 2.400 cc 90° V8

autódromo josé carlos pace

Sauber C29 2010 (youtube.com)

c31

The Sauber C31 was a Formula One racing car designed by Sauber for use in the 2012 Formula One season. The car was driven by Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Pérez. Technical director James Key announced that he was leaving the team just four days before the C31 was due to be launched at Jerez de la Frontera.

The chassis was designed by James Key, Matt Morris, Pierre Waché and Willem Toet with the car being powered with a customer Ferrari engine.

The C31 achieved its first podium, with Pérez behind the wheel, at the Malaysian Grand Prix.

The Sauber C31 finished the 2012 season in a very respectable sixth place with 126 points (as much as a private team since 1993), two fastest laps (China and Monaco), four podiums (Malaysia, Canada, Italy and Japan) and 13 Q3. The car proved to be fast and very competitive, though inconsistent to find the set-up in some circuits and, above all, at the time of the race qualifications.

Unlike previous cars such as the Sauber C29 and to a lesser extent, the C30, the C31 has much more visual sponsorship applied to the car such as Claro, Telcel, Telmex, Tequila Cuervo, Visit México, Oerlikon, NEC and Certina. Many of which are Mexican based companies brought from driver Sergio Pérez and reserve driver Esteban Gutiérrez.

 

kamui kobayashi

2012

ferrari 056 2398 cc mid-mounted naturally-aspirated V8

monaco

Sauber C31 2012

c36

The Sauber C36 is a Formula One racing car designed and constructed by Sauber to compete in the 2017 Formula One World Championship.

The car was driven by Marcus Ericsson and Pascal Wehrlein, who joined the team from Manor Racing to replace outgoing Felipe Nasr.

Intended to be Sauber's last Ferrari powered car before joining Honda as a factory team, the C36 is one of the few cars of F1's turbo hybrid era to have been powered by a year-old power unit. The C36's development was heavily impacted by the team's financial woes, leading Sauber to recycle the previous season's Ferrari 061 V6 power unit.This deal was eventually terminated by Sauber during the 2017 season when team principal Monisha Kaltenborn was replaced by new team owners Longbow Finance.

The C36 was revealed one week before the first pre-season test at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and featured a blue, white, and gold livery that celebrated the team's 25th anniversary of competition in F1.

Later in the season at the Malaysian Grand Prix, the C36 fielded Ferrari Academy driver Charles Leclerc in Free Practice 1.

Wehrlein achieved each of the car's five points, a score which relegated the team to a tenth place finish in the World Constructors Championship for a second consecutive season.

 

pascal wehrlein

2017

ferrari 061 1600 cc ,turbocharged, 90° - V6

bahrain international circuit

Sauber C36 2017

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