Sauber's factory to hear the really good news for Kimi Raikkonen: the Team bosses hit their persuasive text to a table - Kim was like a gift from heaven

Kimi Raikkonen will jump Ferrari in the fierce factor in the Sauberille.Kimi Raikkonen tested the Sauber this season C37-car to the end of the season in Abu Dhabi drive in the tyre tests. In the picture Raikkonen will discuss ferrari from sauber's technical director to Simone Restalle. AOP

– 48 points is no longer enough in the season 2019!

sauber's team manager Fred Vasseur head is not cold, when he line to the garage of his goals for the coming period.

the Phrase is quite bold, since the series last season 2017 stayed in the garage almost ten times the score of the ending season and the rise of manufacturers in the championship series by two notches upwards.

the Targets are even higher.

– We need to get to eighth place in the upper, and it needs this season to score more points, Vasseur continued the swiss Blick newspaper in an interview.

– our Goal should be the four best teams among. That's what we try, Sauber-manager Beat Zehnder specify the F1's in an interview.

the Important cooperation with a key through the 2017 sauber's team manager has become Fred Vasseur has put Hinwilin-factory-kick some ass. ZUMAWIRE.COM/MVPHOTOS

Sauber through 2018 was a watershed.

we Were in the first two thirds of the nine, and the last third jumped into fifth place. It is a tribute to the whole team for the job. We are in a good swing, Vasseur said.

Sauber collected via 2018 the first trimester 12 points and second trimester 7 points. In the last third collected 29 points justified - such as Vasseur said - the fifth instead of the garage among.

the Difference is large it Sauberiin, which in Vasseur jumped in July 2017. The garage had been already years in the past in big trouble. The money was not, and the workers ran away elsewhere.

Before Vasseur hiring Sauber signed a partnership agreement with investment company Longbow Finance. Zehnderin, this was an epochal moment.

Money plays a major role, especially in formula one. Then will be able to pay parts manufacturers and develop the car. We have a great wind tunnel, which we used for almost two years, because there was no money, Zehnder said F1's in an interview.

When Vasseur was replaced by the team manager role Monisha Kaltenbornin , he defused the first thing to do this by the Honda agreement and to negotiate a contract extension with the Ferrari. Conditions were considerably better, and Sauber gained access to ferrari's new, in 2018 engine.

Cooperation of the Italian the direction of the deep anyway.

– the Cooperation with Ferrari with is good and as such it also remains. Although Alfa Romeo and Ferrari are separate brands, they belong to the same family. Cooperation with us is a ferrari good for, Vasseur stresses F1's in an interview.

Recruitments

When Vasseur started his Sauber, in the garage there were about 320 employees. Now employees is 430, and the place is still unfilled.

– we Have recruited more than 50 new engineers. Next season we still have 35 slots open. Alfa Romeo comes with makes Sauberista to attract new employees in the eyes. We have a desired job, Vasseur said blick in an interview.

Mainly recruiting investments need to work in the aerodynamics department.

One of the new sauber's most significant recruitment has been ferrari's chief designer the place the technical director become a Simone Resta . Ferrari-cooperation told quite a lot of it, that Restall had not been normal by way of derogation from any period in the last summer transfer context.

I'm 100% sure that he will be able to develop the car, which makes it faster and bring success, Zehnder said.

Vasseur is of the same opinion.

– Simone brings tremendous value to next season's car. We stopped through 2018 car development in July. He brought to the stable a new kind of spirit and motivation. He is a passionate guy and pushes all the others in the right direction. It is important that the technical director is such, Vasseur said F1.

F1 fans the most visible recruitment are new drivers, Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzo .

in the Garage is enough to credit them also.

Kim was like a gift from heaven. We understand each other. Is not bullshit. We are totally on the same wavelength. He can help us and visit the factory more often. Antonio has learned a lot in a Ferrari. He drove this year 75 000 kilometres in the simulator, Vasseur said Blickille.

Beat Zehnder (right) has worked with Sauber in 1994. He was in the garage also, when Kimi Raikkonen made his debut formula one season 2001. ZUMAWIRE.COM/MVPHOTOS

Sources: Blick, formula1.com

Video: IL from the beginning of December in Porvoo Kimi Raikkonen picked up, when this was represented in Finland, the last time a Ferrari race driver. JANNE PALOMÄKI