By finishing sixth in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone Kamui Kobayashi scored eight championship points – the best result for Sauber so far this season. His team mate, Pedro de la Rosa, had to give up at half distance because of damage to the rear of the car caused by an accident with Adrian [...]

Kamui Kobayashi (15th, 14th) “After we lost some track time we tried to catch up with the programme, and I think we managed that quite well, especially with the short runs. We obviously have to improve our pace everywhere, but I found the balance of the car not too bad. I had only a little [...]

Sauber were thrilled with Kamui Kobayashi‘s drive at Valencia on which he overtook Fernando Alonso and Sebastien Buemi on the last lap of the race, and if their driver Pedro de la Rosa is to be believed, they are set to do even better next weekend at Silverstone. The Spaniard said: “We are all going [...]

The first of their many mid-season updates looked promising for Sauber, as for the first time this season they were seriously competing for championship points. Kamui Kobayashi showed us the reason we all fell in love with him in the final races of 2009, passing Fernando Alonso and Sebastien Buemi on the final lap with [...]

Sauber have become the first team in the paddock to replicate McLaren’s duct system. They have fitted the vent to the left sidepod on their C29 cars given the fact that the technical regulations forbid major changes to the chassis. Sauber have shown impressive speed in recreating their own version of the device which stalls [...]

Sauber have today launched thir 2010 challenger – the C29 at the Ricardo Tormo race track in Valencia. “The last few months have been very intense for us,” says team boss and owner Peter Sauber. “First we had to battle to secure the survival of the team and then we focused on putting a strong [...]

The 38-year-old Spaniard Pedro de la Rosa has been confirmed as driving for the BMW Sauber team in 2010, alongside rookie teammate Kamui Kobayashi. de la Rosa said: “I always firmly believed I would be given another chance as a team driver. Since the number of test drives were radically reduced, this was what I was working [...]

McLaren debutant Jenson Button has revealed that he will be the last of the drivers to test the MP4-25. Jenson Button will make his McLaren driving debut with the team at Valencia on the 3rd February, the last driver to drive the new McLaren in the three day tests. Despite recent rumours of De La Rosa making [...]

According to the Swiss daily newspaper Blick, Sauber will confirm Pedro de la Rosa to drive alongside Kamui Kobayashi in 2010 for the new team. The newspaper said that an announcement will be made soon, barring “an earthquake in Hinwil.” The 38-year-old Spaniard has had two previous stints in an F1 race seat from 99-02 [...]

It has been reported that Kamui Kobayashi will drive for Sauber in 2010 after an impressive showing at the the end of the season. Finnish newspaper Turun Sanomat alleges that a deal has been made but  that no confirmation will be made until both race seats have been filled. Kobayashi had hoped for a race [...]