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    F1 Driver Transfer Histories: SAUBER
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    F1 Driver Transfer Histories: SAUBER



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    Over the past 30 years, Sauber have been a constant presence on the Formula 1 grid. They’ve gone through numerous changes of branding and identity, but have always been a mainstay of the midfield. They rarely put themselves in the spotlight, but were they to leave, their presence would be missed, and they have been a key stepping stone for many drivers in their ascent to the big leagues. Along with this, they’ve often found themselves in the courtroom and had relatively little patience with their drivers. Time for a summary of their driver transfer history.

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    Music:

    Subway Dreams – Dan Henig
    Walking in the Sky – Nico Staf
    Doorway – Slenderbeats

    Timestamps

    0:00 Introduction
    0:37 Surfshark
    2:13 Team origins
    3:23 1990s
    10:32 2000s
    20:36 2010s
    37:27 2020s

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    28 Comments

    2. @Dayne-Lua on

      I do love this iconic team. Also I do feel Marcus Ericsson at his time at Sauber did better than Esteban Gutierrez, Adrian Sutil, Antonio Giovinazzi and Zhou Guanyu.

    6. @EnigmaticJC1 on

      i have a suggestion, for the next transfer history video, please show the current signed drivers names on the screen. as its hard to catch up when say, i have to leave the video, and since i dont know who is signed at that time, i have to go back to the very start

    9. @whyareyoureadingmynickname8158 on

      Sauber has committed cardinal sins in each of their decades in F1:

      1. in 1990s they treated anyone not named Heinz-Harald or Karl as interchangeable fodder;

      2. in 2000s they couldn't abandon their midfield mindset once they became competitive (still salty about 2008 🤬)

      3. in 2010s they favored worthless pay drivers over actually talented drivers (just imagine Kobayashi and Hulkenberg pairing in 2013 or Wehrlein and Leclerc in 2018);

      4. in 2020s they seem to completely lack any sort of passion and ambition and are just complacent.

      It's a shame, though. Sauber was always one of those teams that I wanted to have more success but they have always been their own greatest enemy.

    16. @youlesie23 on

      No team frustrates me more than Sauber, not even Ferrari. Constant bad decision after bad decision, always settling for mediocrity instead of daring to actually be competitive. Rarely competitive, never ambitious, always irrelevant. Aside from four years of BMW that’s been Sauber in a nutshell.

    19. @tjitse3916 on

      Overall great vid, lovely to see some of those drivers that subsistuted here and there that I completely forgot, like Frentzen in 2002. Stats on testdrivers and/or driver academy bits over the last few years were also interesting…..together with showing how almost useless it is to be part of it. LIke 95% of people entering academy never end up on the grid.

    20. @pietrozanacchi1853 on

      As an italian i completely lost my faith in this team for how they handled Giovinazzi; I'm not one of those people who say that he absolutely deserved his seat, he did several costly mistakes when he should have performed. But I swear, I was always focusing on his race during GPs and you could not believe how manu times he got destroyed by terrible strategy (look for example at Monaco 2021, when they literally made him being overcutted) slow asf pitstop (3-5 seconds every 2 races). Look at Singapore 2019, Monza 2020, Mexico 2021. I think he's one of the most unnoticed "what if" of modern days F1 both for his and his team's fault.

    24. @Sguma99 on

      I live right next to Hinwil. Everytime i go to Mcdonals I drive by the Sauber Factory. its great to see our small team getting some love from you

    25. @Soebe on

      Correction: Sauber doesn't need a license to promote a gambling company. The problem is that Stake doesn't have a swiss license and is therefore illegal there. That's why Sauber as a swiss team can't promote them. Sponsoring wouldn't be an issue at all. But who does sponsoring without getting ad revenue.

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