2019 Alfa Romeo F1 Team - Ferrari

[Manoah2u]

Team: Alfa Romeo F1 Team
Base: Hinwil, Zurich, Switzerland
Team principal: Frédric Vasseur
Technical director(s): Jorg Zander ???
Website: http://www.sauberf1team.com

Race drivers:

7 Kimi Räikkonen
99 Antonio Giovinazzi

Test drivers : ????

Chassis: C38
Engine: Ferrari V6 Turbo

2018 position: 8th (48 pts)









This thread is to discuss the 2019 Sauber - Ferrari F1 TEAM

[NathanOlder]

The Sauber name has been dropped, and is now Officially

Alfa Romeo Racing

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14127 ... meo-racing

[Godius]

[AMG.Tzan]

Ooooh yeaah...at last!! Bring on the red livery!!

[bauc]

Sad day of F1 to see the Sauber name go in history

[BwajSF]

Sad day of F1 to see the Sauber name go in history

if i am not wrong sauber was long gone.. ericsson's swiss sponsors rescued the team and backed it with the same name. But now with ericsson gone so does his sponsor.. and hence the name sauber disappears.

[timbo]

Hmm, a strange decision IMO.
What point is there to advertise both brands from FIAT in the same series? A somewhat limited involvement by Alfa Romeo was somewhat more clear and transparent. Now they tout it as "works" Alfa Romeo team, which it isn't. Can't see much sense in it.

[marvin78]

Very very many people do not know or care about a FIAT, Ferrari, Alfa connection.

[turbof1]

Updated topic title and first post accordingly. Note that the official website still is called www.sauberf1team.com. Should that change and I did not pick up on that, let me know.

[F1NAC]

Guessing by their name abbreviation from the past, new car name 219 ? 2 as 2nd millennium and 19 from 2019.

[djones]

Presumably the livery will now look more like this:

[Raleigh]

Sad day of F1 to see the Sauber name go in history

if i am not wrong sauber was long gone.. ericsson's swiss sponsors rescued the team and backed it with the same name. But now with ericsson gone so does his sponsor.. and hence the name sauber disappears.

Ericsson's backers are still running the team but they are Swedish/Scandinavian and motorsport enthusiasts...

They had the chance to sign Kimi Raikkonen instead and took it (Ferrari chooses the other driver as part of the technical deal and picked Giovinazzi). So Ericsson is off to race in Indycar still with Longbow backing and Alfa Romeo Sauber becomes Alfa Romeo which would have been the original plan.

I'll miss the name but last year everyone was still calling the team Sauber, for marketing reasons they had to become Alfa Romeo.

[gastonmazzacane]

Hmm, a strange decision IMO.
What point is there to advertise both brands from FIAT in the same series? A somewhat limited involvement by Alfa Romeo was somewhat more clear and transparent. Now they tout it as "works" Alfa Romeo team, which it isn't. Can't see much sense in it.

Both brands? Ferrari is not FIAT(FCA) owned anymore.

[Jolle]

Hmm, a strange decision IMO.
What point is there to advertise both brands from FIAT in the same series? A somewhat limited involvement by Alfa Romeo was somewhat more clear and transparent. Now they tout it as "works" Alfa Romeo team, which it isn't. Can't see much sense in it.

Both brands? Ferrari is not FIAT(FCA) owned anymore.

Well, both Ferrari and FIAT have the same biggest shareholder, a Dutch company called EXOR NV, under control of the Angelli family. John Elkann is CEO of all the three companies (Ferrari, Fiat and EXOR). So yes, technically FIAT doesn't own Ferrari, but in real life they do.

[Manoah2u]

Presumably the livery will now look more like this:

https://www.thisisf1.com/wp-content/upl ... Photos.jpg

daymm thats nice