Sauber, winter d'Hell
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It will be a difficult winter for the Hinwil-based team. German driver Adrian Sutil, now with Williams, has filed a complaint with the Supreme Court in Zurich making a claim for 3.5 million Swiss francs against Peter Sauber’s team.
The Helvetians allegedly failed to fulfill their 2015 contract with the driver: Sauber through Team Principal Monisha Kaltenborn had guaranteed the “starting seat” to five drivers (Ericsson, Nasr, Van der Garde, Sutil and Bianchi); in fact, the stable’s fixed pair for the 2015 season consisted of Nasr and and Ericsson.
Sutil’s case is not the first; the legal route taken by the German is similar to the one proposed by one of his former teammates, Giedo Van der Garde, who managed to wrest 15 million francs from the Swiss for the same contractual inconsistency.
As if that were not enough, Sauber will not participate in the first test of the season with the new single-seater: from Hinwil they confirm that a 2015 car dressed in the new 2016 livery will be fielded in the Montmeló session, scheduled for Feb. 22-25.
The C35 then could see the light of day in the second test scheduled for March 1, also in Montmeló.
