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He is a co-owner of Tetra Laval, the packaging company, and formerly a co-owner of Sauber Motorsport and the Alfa Romeo Formula One team, before selling the team to Audi in 2024. [ 1 ] Early life
Sauber Motorsport AG, currently competing in Formula One as Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber, and also known simply as Kick Sauber or Sauber, is a Swiss motorsport engineering company. It was founded in 1970 (as PP Sauber AG) by Peter Sauber , who progressed through hillclimbing and the World Sportscar Championship to reach Formula One in 1993 .
Sauber did convince Mercedes to enter F1 in 1994 but a year later the German company did a deal with McLaren, leaving Sauber to become the Ford F1 works team. This was followed by a deal with the Malaysian oil company Petronas in 1995 and the establishment of an engineering company called Sauber Petronas Engineering to design and build V10 engines.
At this stage, Kaiser was a co-owner of the Sauber Formula One team (along with founder and team principal Peter Sauber and Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz), and Kaltenborn was employed to take charge of the team's corporate and legal affairs. By 2000, Kaiser had sold his shares, but Kaltenborn remained with the team as the head of its legal ...
She left Haas in June 2016 and was employed by Sauber three months later, helping the team finish ahead of rival Manor Racing in the 2016 Constructors' Championship. She joined the F1 TV line-up in mid-2024 from her role as a strategy engineer at the Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber. [3] Buscombe is an ambassador for Dare to be Different.
Peter Sauber chose the designation C1 after the first letter of his wife Christiane's first name and kept it for the racing car series that followed later. The self-constructed chassis made of a tubular space frame with double triangular wishbones, stabilizers, telescopic and gas pressure shock absorbers was supplemented by Brabham parts.
Mateschitz co-founded Red Bull in the 1980s alongside Thai entrepreneur Chaleo Yoovidhya, owns two F1 teams, Red Bull Ring circuit in Austria.
[70] [72] When he realised no competitive team would employ him, [72] he and Pollock met Sauber team owner Peter Sauber in Hinwil in mid-2004. [70] Impressed with Sauber's professionalism, [72] he signed a two-year contract the next month to drive for Sauber from the 2005 season and help them attract new sponsors and partners. [70]