After 13 seasons in the maximum category, 215 presences and a total of 195 accumulated points, escudería of Swiss origin Sauber the past said goodbye after Great Prize of China.

Sponsored person by Mercedes-Benz in its beginnings, Sauber later caught the interest of Ford, mark that offered its motors him during two seasons soon to leave to the equipment of Jackie Stewart. Thence, Sauber until its last race had to buy motor-client, in this case the previous evolutions of escudería Ferrari.

The great yearning of Peter Sauber was to gain a race of F1, objective that did not manage to fulfill, but it did not clear the dream either to him. Equipment many more powerful as BAR and Toyota have not obtained it either until now.

Shining pilots like Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Jean Alesi, Jacques Villeneuve, Kimi Räikkönen, among others, have known to lead for escudería of Peter, always considered like a great family.

But everything has a end, and thus it was as Peter Sauber understood that escuderías of private nature no longer fits in the present F1, and ended up selling all their structure to the German giant BMW, that will at least conserve the name of Sauber by one more season.

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