This is the C29, BMW Sauber’s 2010 challenger, and the picture above shows team owner Peter Sauber and his two drivers – Pedro de la Rosa, a long time McLaren test driver, and Kamui Kobayashi, the young Japanese driver who impressed in a Toyota last season. The striking thing about the C29 is that it comes without any sponsor logos, although the drivers will rope in their personal sponsors. Scalp-D, a Japanese shampoo, and Kubica endorsed watch brand Certina are set to come in.
Some of you might wonder why we still use the name BMW Sauber when the Munich based carmaker has left the sport. Well, this team registered its name before BMW exited the sport, and there’s plenty of red tape involved in name changing, so the team is likely to retain the official BMW Sauber name for this season, even though the C29 is powered by Ferrari. The “C” model designation was used by the Sauber team until 2005, before BMW came into play. The last “C” car was the Sauber Petronas C24 of 2005 piloted by Jacques Villeneuve and Felipe Massa.
“An eye-catching feature of the C29 is its highly intricate raised nose. Also very distinctive is an extremely long undercut at the transition from chassis into underbody. These and other aerodynamic measures also help to ensure optimum airflow to the double diffuser. Further changes were required to integrate the Ferrari engine and, in particular, the Ferrari gearbox,” said technical director Willy Rampf.
More pictures after the jump.
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Sauber's Team all the way to go….
this car really looks awesome without sponsor's logo
simple and stylo
you can do it,bmw sauber
so when will lotus unveil their cars?
it looks weird…
So, is this mean BMW got free marketing?
or Sauber needs to pay certain amount because using their name? or vice vice versa..
nice wheels
No Sponsor ???
They should remove the Blue & Red colours &
Paint it all WHITE
Name is BMW but a Ferrari engine?
Reminds me of some re-badge cars ….hehehe
Free marketing for BMW. Sauber would rather not have BMW on the car but they are retaining the name(BMW Sauber) that they were registered as for 2010 season, because of issues related to television money and Concorde Agreement.
It is said that at least until the first race, the name will stay as it is and they have come to an agreement with Ferrari to allow that for now.
I suspect they will change it when they can confirm a big sponsor who will cover any revenue deficits incurred as a result of changing the team name.
is reminds me of another brawn GP. Hope it can succeed what a brawn GP have done last year
F1 also rebadge ma…..
ferrari want to be BMW too!.. lol
Walau, Sauber isn't willing to reveal their diffuser design. The car is taped by a black plastic cover. Whatever it is, this team will be a black sheep in the hurdle.
Yo when is 1Malaysia car will be release?????? So slow la.
its still very very early. but the car did do ok todays official testing… i am looking forward to this teams progress till the first race… sauber has made strong cars in the past. + they have the best aerodynamic wind tunnel in the industry at the moment. and a very very good super computer to boot.
Anyway if you see the new Mercedes car that is one wired looking car http://en.espnf1.com/mercedes/motorsport/gallery/…
1 Felipe Massa Ferrari F10 1:13.088 32
2 Pedro de la Rosa BMW Sauber C29 1:13.247 21
3 Nico Rosberg Mercedes MGPW01 1:13.543 30
4 Gary Paffett McLaren MP4-25 1:14.018 34
5 Rubens Barrichello Willaims FW32 1:14.449 42
6 Robert Kubica Renault R30 1:15:298 37
7 Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso STR5 1:19.279 10
paxter said,
February 2, 2010 @ 1:08 am
… sauber has made strong cars in the past. + they have the best aerodynamic wind tunnel in the industry at the moment. and a very very good super computer to boot.
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I'd think carefully about making such a statement. Things change in F1 very quickly. You might have the best supercomputer 3 years ago but by now it may be behind already.
Even with large resource from BMW the team was lagging behind last year. Not very decisions were obviously made. Money and equipment is not everything.
This year Sauber is operating on an even smaller budget.
Wait till Bahrain to see who's really where. Too early to judge now because teams are only introducing their aero upgrade later just before Bahrain. Then we'll see which team did their homework properly.
Already the MercGP looks radical especially it's single keel, very high nose. Different to most of the other teams
"C" has been a BiG acheiVemnt on tingz! so possibLe enuf we couLd c a BrawN GP acheiVemnt again tis season!!
The sauber rear diffuser look dangerously different implementation compared to the rest…
You can't actually see Sauber's rear diffuser in the pics because they've covered it up to hide it but here's a clue
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/9302/26056891….
I like it. Sidepod looks cool. Hope they're the new Brawn.
You can see the rear diffuser now after the first test. Check out formula1.com image gallery. They snapshot rear diffuser for McLaren, Merc GP, Ferrari, Renault and Sauber… see the difference…
It makes sense for Petronas to sponsor Mercedes as the team Mercedes GP Petronas has the name Petronas on the team's name.
man said,
February 2, 2010 @ 10:41 pm
It makes sense for Petronas to sponsor Mercedes as the team Mercedes GP Petronas has the name Petronas on the team’s name.
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Petronas can be the TITLE sponsor of any team if they pump in enough money into that team
@man
It means bigger amount is funded into the team…
2nd after the mercedes itself…
Say like, Merc is $1,000,000,000, then Petronas maybe $999,999,999… :)
VIRGIN is out!!
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