Sauber C36 Speculation Thread

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Sauber C36 Speculation Thread

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This is the speculation thread about the 2017 car. Rumors, articles, ideas and fantasies about the car can be posted here. Once the car gets officially launched, this thread will be closed and discussion continues in the official thread.

Topic will be unlocked after the season finisher in Abu Dhabi.
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Source: http://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/177 ... gines-2017

Source: http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/saube ... nt-830710/

"But with the squad's finances now sorted, Kaltenborn insists her team will not be hurt by the lack of progress made with the 2017 car.

"Some things will take a while. You can't be quicker, that's the way things move," Kaltenborn said. "But I think in terms of development we could do a lot of things when it comes to looking at next year's car.

"We couldn't implement many things on this year's car, but other capabilities are very much there. So we could do that.

"There can be a bit of an effect on that, I'm not saying everything was just going on normally, but it shouldn't give us any reason why we can't make as step ahead next year".

Sadly I think that the disadvantage will be massive now that the teams can develop the PUs more than ever. Unless they bring incredibly good ideas for the chasis 2017 will be a tough year.

At least they expect to have a more ambitious in-season development plan than in 2016.

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Only 10 days to go, sharkfin confirmed 8) https://twitter.com/SauberF1Team/status ... 5427568641
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wogx wrote:Only 10 days to go, sharkfin confirmed 8)
https://twitter.com/SauberF1Team/status ... 5427568641
Not sure how accurate this is, but the rear end seems really wide...
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ScrewCaptain27 wrote:
wogx wrote:Only 10 days to go, sharkfin confirmed 8)
https://twitter.com/SauberF1Team/status ... 5427568641
Not sure how accurate this is, but the rear end seems really wide...
maybe wide in the rear is good in 2017?

http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/form ... 11039.html

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Could be a teaser for the new livery
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Hope so. Blue and white is sooooo much nicer than the blue and yellow!!
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That is part from their trailer that was seen at Barcelona
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ScrewCaptain27 wrote:Could be a teaser for the new livery
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201702 ... ffd223.jpg
well last year they had this livery on truck and nowhere seen blue-yellow combination

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True, but the fact they changed the trucks is a huge hint of changing the cars.
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F1NAC wrote:
ScrewCaptain27 wrote:Could be a teaser for the new livery
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201702 ... ffd223.jpg
well last year they had this livery on truck and nowhere seen blue-yellow combination

https://cdn-5.motorsport.com/static/img ... orhome.jpg
Well to be fair, they had quite alot of financial problems in last few years, so maybe they just werent having enough money to make a new movable HQ, or they simply didnt bother to even repaint it, since it looks like it is from 2010-13 era. Maybe now, when aparently money is sorted they have made investments in the whole image as well.

In the other hand this truck looks like brand new and the scheme is similar to the one on the motorhome, so maybe its just their thing to paint ther logistics in a different way.

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maybe their livery could look like 2010-2012 with blue instead grey/black. For "few" hours we will find out

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What time is the reveal>?
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bauc wrote:What time is the reveal>?
Countdown clock ruled out, they're keeping costs down.

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bauc wrote:What time is the reveal>?
Neither their site nor social media accounts give any time.

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