The Sauber team is struggling for performance while its new owner Audi is preparing its 2026 Formula 1 works entry
Sauber has refuted that its current lack of performance is related to its new owner Audi focusing most of its efforts on Formula 1's 2026 regulations. The team is the only one yet to score points after nine races, being hamstrung by pitstop and other reliability issues at the start of the year and, just when it started getting its pitstops under control, the Swiss squad has now fallen back in the midfield's development race with what has been the slowest car on the grid in recent races.
' Valtteri Bottas, Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber C44 Photo by: Andrew Ferraro / Motorsport Images But Alessandro Alunni Bravi, the board member who is the team's acting representative, claims the team's short-term performance and long-term ambitions are not incompatible. 'I think it's a mistake to mix both things,' he said. 'I don't think that the preparation for the Audi works team is affecting the current two seasons, and it must not.
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