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Sauber F1 “working on a new package” that includes changes to the floor — Pujolar

Sauber, currently sitting last in the Constructors’ Championship with no points, is heading to the Hungarian Grand Prix with a mix of optimism and anticipation. The team’s last outing at the British GP was challenging, but they are hopeful about their prospects in Hungary. Sauber Racing Director Xevi Pujolar discussed the team’s efforts to introduce…

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Pujolar: Sauber “trying to bring upgrades as soon as possible” as they languish at the back of F1 2024 pack

Sauber’s scoreless streak continued at the Austrian Grand Prix where neither of their drivers Valtteri Bottas nor Zhou Guanyu could put their Sauber C44 cars within the Top 10. In qualifying, neither car progressed to Q2 with Bottas only managing 18th, while Zhou had to start from the pit lane following a Parc Fermé infringement…

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“There is something coming” — Pujolar says Sauber F1 have developements on the way to improve C44

Sauber Racing Director Xevi Pujolar has maintained faith in his team’s development progress this season as he has assured upgrades are in the pipeline. After 9 Grands Prix and 2 Sprints in 2024, Sauber has not scored a single point in the championship. Alpine has overtaken them in the development race since Bahrain, leaving them…

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Sauber trying to help Zhou Guanyu is “something that we are working on” as “he doesn’t feel confident” in F1 C44 car — Pujolar

Sauber F1’s racing director Xevi Pujolar spoke post-race after Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix about why the team’s Chinese racer Zhou Guanyu is struggling so much with the C44 compared to teammate Valtteri Bottas. Everyone knows that in motorsport, the first target a driver must achieve is being able to beat his teammate. Valtteri Bottas and…

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Sauber F1 “need to keep working hard” as “better pace” is required to score points — Pujolar

Following a double Q1 elimination on Saturday, Sauber decided to roll the dice and change the rear wings on both cars, starting from pit lane in the Canadian Grand Prix. In reality, Valtteri Bottas was the one who was likely to do anything with it. Zhou Guanyu crashed twice in practice, and he simply had…

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Sauber’s Pujolar says qualifying is focus after issues of F1 Imola GP: “At the moment our race pace is better relative to the competitors”

Sauber completed the first race of the European calendar with zero points to its name which means the team remain on zero points so far in 2024. Try as they might with different strategies on a track where it is difficult to overtake, they were facing an uphill battle as their rivals had brought a…

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Bottas explains why Sauber is suffering so many pit stop problems in 2024 F1 season

Along with receiving a €5000 fine, the Sauber Formula One team experienced more terrible pit stops at the Australian Grand Prix. The team experienced back-to-back slow pit stops this season already. Bottas was had a 50-second pit stop in Bahrain, while Zhou suffered his share of it in Saudi Arabia. After experiencing two slow pit…

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Sauber F1 scrambles to solve continuous pit stop issues ahead of Australian GP; Bottas declares them a “wake-up call”

Sauber F1 driver Zhou Guanyu found himself in pit lane mayhem at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.  These issues echoed the problems at this season’s first race in Bahrain, where the team had a wheel nut nightmare with Valtteri Bottas’s car. Bottas experienced a pit stop horror story that reminded the watchers-on of Monaco 20221…

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