Sauber shows off new look

Sauber has shown off its bold new look coinciding with its new pre-Audi chapter for the 2024 Formula 1 World Championship.

Sauber, known commercially as Stake F1 Team, has a completely new design as a result of the departure of Alfa Romeo following a six-year partnership.

Gone is the dark red and in is bright green, coupled with the carbon fibre, creating a colour scheme rarely seen in Formula 1 before, and especially by Sauber which has been either red, white, blue or grey in recent years.

The car itself called the Stake C44 is completely different from last year’s C43.

The rear suspension is completely modified and the aerodynamics are all new.

Meanwhile as a consequence of Zhou Guanyu’s horrifying crash at Silverstone in 2022, this is the first Sauber with a conventional triangular roll-hoop.

Historically the team had opted for a single pillar for that part of the car but that is what failed when Zhou flipped upside-down and dragged along the tarmac before being caught in the Abbey catch fence.

Zhou will suit up for his third Formula 1 season and hopes to score more than six points and finish 18th in the championship, having done so in both of his 2022 and 2023 campaigns.

The experience of Valtteri Bottas continues to be up the team’s sleeve for a third year since leaving Mercedes at the end of 2021.

Bottas will be looking to fire back after finishing outside the top 10 in the championship for the first time since his debut season back in 2013.

The Finn could only manage 16th in the championship with best results of eighth in Bahrain and Qatar.

Valtteri Bottas racing in Saudi Arabia last year. Photo by Zak Mauger / LAT Images

After a slow start to 2023, Sauber hopes its new look car can hit the ground running in 2024.

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