Mar.7 (GMM) Audi actually is taking up one hundred pc of the Sauber workforce, with a number of authoritative sources now insisting that little doubt stays concerning the VW-owned model’s dedication to coming into Formulation 1 for 2026.
Final weekend, we reported Bahrain paddock rumours that regardless of months of uncertainty concerning the F1 mission and administration upheavals, Audi isn’t solely nonetheless dedicated, however truly ramping up that dedication even additional.
Audi had already taken 25 p.c possession of the Hinwil based mostly workforce, with preliminary plans to ramp it as much as 75 p.c by 2026.
Nevertheless, it emerges that Audi has the truth is negotiated now turn into the one hundred pc proprietor.
Bild, the largest nationwide newspaper in Germany, says the one hundred pc takeover is already carried out.
“The Ingolstadt-based firm, which had beforehand held 25 p.c, accomplished the (one hundred pc) deal in the previous couple of days,” confirmed correspondent Michel Milewski.
He added: “Engineers on the (Audi) manufacturing unit in Neuburg an der Donau are already working at full velocity, and all parts of the ability unit – V6, electrical motor, battery and management electronics – have been on the check benches for a while.”
Moreover, Audi Sport technical chief Oliver Hoffmann is now formally on the board of administrators at Sauber, memorialised on the Swiss industrial register.
Audi and Sauber, nevertheless, haven’t but confirmed the hypothesis concerning the one hundred pc workforce takeover, based on German specialist reviews.
