Kamui Kobayashi sports helmet design by Linkin Park
Kamui – Helmet – Linkin Park Design
5000 x 3333 – 1.82 MB |
Kamui – Helmet – Linkin Park Design
5000 x 3333 – 1.75 MB |
Kamui – Helmet – Linkin Park Design
5000 x 3333 – 1.77 MB |
Kamui – Helmet – Linkin Park Design
5000 x 3333 – 1.6 MB |
Kamui – Helmet – Linkin Park Design
5000 x 3333 – 1.84 MB |
Sauber – British GP – Qualifying – Saturday, 09.07.2011
5000 x 3333 – 1.42 MB
Sergio – Sauber C30-Ferrari
3333 x 5000 – 1.29 MB
credit : Sauber F1 Team
Sauber F1 Team – Grand Prix of Europe , Valencia, 26th of June of 2011
“We are disappointed to finish outside the top ten for the first time this year. We took a gamble with both cars with the strategy to try and make something out of our compromised grid positions. Sergio did an excellent job to do a one stop race, which for here was always going to be pretty tough. He made his way to P11 in the end and wasn’t too far from the cars ahead in the points. He got quite badly held up by blue flags, and lost quite a bit of lap time there. That happened just before the last stops, and it dropped him back a bit, so we couldn’t make it there at the end. However, it was a good effort from him to hang on to the tyres. Kamui started on the soft tyres, then went on the medium in the middle stint, and tried to use the new soft tyres in the end as a two stopper. That didn’t quite work out. The medium tyres were too slow, but we didn’t want to run too long on the soft in the end. In hindsight maybe a three stop strategy would have been better. It was always going to be difficult to get a car in the points from where we started, because overtaking is still difficult here. We now have to go to Silverstone, a very different track from the last three, and make sure that we can improve”
Kamui – Sauber C30-Ferrari
5000 x 3333 – 1.61 MB |
Sergio – Sauber C30-Ferrari
5000 x 3333 – 1.87 MB |
Sergio / Kamui
5000 x 3333 – 1.87 MB |
Kamui
3328 x 5000 – 1.58 MB |
Sergio
5000 x 333 |
credit : Sauber F1 Team
Sauber F1 – Canada GP tech preview
Circuit
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Circuit Giles Villeneuve / 4.361 km
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Race distance
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70 laps / 305.270 km
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Schedule
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Qualifying and Race at 13:00 hrs local time (17:00 GMT)
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credit : Sauber F1 Team
Sauber F1 Team – Spanish GP ,Race – Sunday, 22.05.2011
3543 x 2362 – 0.81 MB
Sergio – Sauber C30-Ferrari
3543 x 2362 – 1.17 MB
credit : Sauber F1 Team
Sauber F1 Team – Spanish GP – Qualifying
Kamui – Sauber C30-Ferrari
3543 x 2362 – 1.03 MB |
Cuervo – Freeze the Moment
2362 x 3536 – 0.88 MB |
Sergio – Sauber C30-Ferrari
3543 x 2362 – 1.35 MB |
credit : Sauber F1 Team
Sauber F1 Team – Turkish GP – Race
Sergio – Sauber C30-Ferrari
3543 x 2362 – 0.55 MB |
Kamui – Sauber C30-Ferrari
3543 x 2362 – 0.88 MB |
credit : Sauber F1 Team
Sauber, Turkish GP – Qualifying – Saturday, 07.05.2011
Kamui – Sauber C30-Ferrari
3543 x 2362 – 0.68 MB |
Peter Sauber
3543 x 2362 – 0.67 MB |
Sergio – Sauber C30-Ferrari
3543 x 2362 – 0.57 MB |
credit : Sauber F1 Team
Sauber F1 Team – Turkish GP – Preview
Circuit
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Istanbul Park / 5.338 km
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Race distance
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58 laps / 309.396 km
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Schedule
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Qualifying 14:00 hrs (11:00 GMT), Race 15:00 hrs (12:00 GMT)
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Driver
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Kamui Kobayashi
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Sergio Pérez
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Born
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13.09.1986 Amagasaki (JP)
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26.01.1990 Guadalajara (MX)
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Marital status
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Single
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Single
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Height / Weight
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1.68 m / 58 kg
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1.73 m / 63 kg
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First GP
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Brazil 2009, finished 9th
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Australia 2011 (7th/disqualified)
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GP started
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24
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3
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Best race result
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2 x 6th (UAE 2009, GB 2010)
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7th (AUS 2011/disqualified)
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Best qualifying
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2 x 9th (MAL 2010, AUS 2011)
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12th (CHN 2011)
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Fastest race laps
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–
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–
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Points in total
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42 (3 in 2009, 32 in 2010)
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–
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Points in 2011
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7
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With 7 points the Sauber F1 Team is currently 6th in the Constructors’ Championship.
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Kamui
3543 x 2362 – 1 MB |
Sergio
3543 x 2362 – 0.92 MB |
Spare parts Sauber C30-Ferrari
3543 x 2362 – 0.66 MB |
credit : Sauber F1 team
Sauber F1 Team – Interview with Peter Sauber
Peter Sauber and Kamui Kobayashi
3543 x 2362 – 0.91 MB |
Peter Sauber and Sergio Pérez
3543 x 2362 – 1.1 MB |
credit : Sauber F1 Team
Chinese GP – Sauber ,Race – Sunday, 17.04.2011
Kamui – Sauber C30-Ferrari
3543 x 2362 – 0.84 MB |
Sergio – Sauber C30-Ferrari
3543 x 2362 – 0.75 MB |
credit : Sauber F1 Team
Chinese GP –Sauber , Qualifying – Saturday, 16.04.2011
Kamui – Sauber C30-Ferrari
3543 x 2362 – 0.68 MB |
Sergio – Sauber C30-Ferrari
3543 x 2362 – 0.82 MB |
credit : Sauber F1 Team
Chinese GP –Sauber , 1st/2nd Free Practice – Friday, 15.04.2011
Kamui and Race Engineer Francesco Nenci
2362 x 3536 – 0.95 MB |
Sauber C30-Ferrari
3543 x 2362 – 0.98 MB |
Sergio
3543 x 2362 – 0.62 MB |
credit : Sauber F1 team
Sauber C30 – Malaysian GP – Race – Sunday, 10.04.2011
Kamui – Sauber C30-Ferrari
3543 x 2362 – 0.86 MB |
James Key – Monisha Kaltenborn
3543 x 2362 – 0.79 MB |
Sergio – Sauber C30-Ferrari
3543 x 2362 – 0.75 MB |
credit : Sauber F1 team
Sauber C30 – Malaysian GP – Qualifying – Saturday, 09.04.2011
Kamui
3543 x 2362 – 1.01 MB |
Monisha Kaltenborn – FIA press conference
3543 x 2362 – 0.9 MB |
Sergio – Sauber C30-Ferrari
3543 x 2362 – 0.89 MB |
credit : Sauber F1 team
Sauber C30 – Malaysian GP – 1st/2nd Free Practice – Friday, 08.04.2011
Kamui – helmet – design for Japan
3543 x 2362 – 0.62 MB |
Kamui
3543 x 2362 – 0.73 MB |
Sergio – pit stop
2362 x 3536 – 0.84 MB |
Sergio
3543 x 2362 – 0.9 MB |
credit : Sauber F1 team
Sauber C30 – Steering wheel analysis
Sauber C30 – New set of bargeboards before Melbourne
Bargeboard revision also took place in last pre season test with the new shield to be taller and sport a more intense saw-tooth profile towards the rear to favor turbulence reduction further . The change on sidepod panel bottoms ( https://formula1techandart.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/sauber-c30-sidepod-panel-revision-before-melbourne/ ) that also took place before Melbourne was possibly triggered by this new set of bargeboard shields .
Sauber exclusion from Australian GP
Sauber was excluded from Australian GP race results in breach of article 3.10.1 and 3.10.2 of the technical regulations because the the top surface of the uppermost rear wing element (in yellow) was found to be by 5mm shorter in radius ( red two head arrow) than the minimum which is 100mm . Sauber may have claimed no performance gain but at the end they decided not to appeal against FIA disqualification . However they confirmed that was indeed an error in the checking process resulting to deviation from the rules .
Article 3.10.1
Any bodywork more than 150mm behind the rear wheel centre line which is between 150mm and 730mm above the reference plane, and between 75mm and 355mm from the car centre line, must lie in an area when viewed from the side of the car that is situated between 150mm and 350mm behind the rear wheel centre line and between 300mm and 400mm above the reference plane. When viewed from the side of the car no longitudinal cross section may have more than one section in this area.
Furthermore, no part of this section in contact with the external air stream may have a local concave radius of curvature smaller than 100mm.
Once this section is defined, ‘gurney’ type trim tabs may be fitted to the trailing edge. When measured in any longitudinal cross section no dimension of any such trim tab may exceed 20mm.
Article 3.10.2
Other than the bodywork defined in Article 3.10.9, any bodywork behind a point lying 50mm forward of the rear wheel centre line which is more than 730mm above the reference plane, and less than 355mm from the car centre line, must lie in an area when viewed from the side of the car that is situated between the rear wheel centre line and a point 350mm behind it. With the exception of minimal parts solely associated with adjustment of the section in accordance with Article 3.18 :
– when viewed from the side of the car, no longitudinal cross section may have more than two sections in this area, each of which must be closed.
– no part of these longitudinal cross sections in contact with the external air stream may have a local concave radius of curvature smaller than 100mm.
Once the rearmost and uppermost section is defined, ‘gurney’ type trim tabs may be fitted to the trailing edge. When measured in any longitudinal cross section no dimension of any such trim tab may exceed 20mm. The chord of the rearmost and uppermost closed section must always be smaller than the chord of the lowermost section at the same lateral station. Furthermore, the distance between adjacent sections at any longitudinal plane must lie between 10mm
and 15mm at their closest position, except, in accordance with Article 3.18, when this distance must lie between 10mm and 50mm.
Sauber C30 – front brakes
Sauber like other teams runs non carbon brake ducts which are manufactured via Rapid prototyping method . This method can produce components faster (reduced manufacturing time up to 90% !) and cheaper , can achieve extremely structural accuracy and able to create almost any shape . The ducts are first designed on a CAD ( Computer Aided Design) system and then with the help of a 3D laser printing technology are being manufactured layer by layer until the model is completed from material in powder form .
In Melbourne Sauber raced semi covered main duct with a black strong tape to reduce brakes cooling . This tape sealing method is used by many teams , it may sounds bizarre but in fact is practical and very fast . changing ducts would cost several valuable minutes and demands striping of the braking components , something impossible within limited practice sessions .