Sauber Junior Team

The Sauber Junior Team is an initiative by Sauber Motorsport to help nurture talent from karts through the feeder series ladder to promote them to their Formula One team.

In November 2018, Sauber entered a partnership with Czech team Charouz Racing System to form the Sauber Junior Team, followed by the creation of a karting team in March 2019.[1][2] After 2019 Sauber parted ways with Charouz and currently runs three drivers in its single seaters junior team.[3][4]

Current drivers

Driver Years Current series Titles achieved as Sauber Junior Team member
Théo Pourchaire 2019– FIA Formula 2 Championship ADAC Formula 4
Dexter Patterson 2019– Italian F4 Championship none as Sauber Junior Team member
Christian Ho 2019– Karting none as Sauber Junior Team member
Petr Ptáček 2020– Formula Renault Eurocup none as Sauber Junior Team member
Miguel Costa 2020– Karting none as Sauber Junior Team member
Emerson Fittipaldi, Jr. 2020– Karting none as Sauber Junior Team member
Tiziano Monza 2020– Karting none as Sauber Junior Team member
Ugo Ugochukwu 2020– Karting CIK-FIA European Championship - OKJ
Gustaw Wisniewski 2021– Karting none as Sauber Junior Team member
Maciej Gladysz 2021– Karting none as Sauber Junior Team member

Former drivers

Driver Years Series that driver competed as Sauber Junior
Callum Ilott[note 1] 2019 FIA Formula 2 Championship (2019)
Juan Manuel Correa 2019 FIA Formula 2 Championship (2019)
Lirim Zendeli 2019 FIA Formula 3 Championship (2019)
Fabio Scherer 2019 FIA Formula 3 Championship (2019)
Raoul Hyman 2019 FIA Formula 3 Championship (2019)
Arthur Leclerc 2019 ADAC Formula 4 (2019)
Roman Staněk 2019 ADAC Formula 4 (2019)
Italian F4 Championship (2019)
Alessandro Ghiretti 2019 ADAC Formula 4 (2019)
Italian F4 Championship (2019)
Stuart White 2019 French F4 Championship (2019)
Joshua Dufek 2019 Karting (2019)
Harry Thompson 2020 Karting (2020)
Piotr Czaja 2020 Karting (2020)

Notes

  1. In 2019 Ilott was part of both the Sauber Junior Team and the Ferrari Driver Academy.

References

  1. "Sauber establish junior team with Charouz Racing System". 15 November 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  2. Mitchell, Scott (29 March 2019). "Sauber launches kart team with ex-Rosberg/Hamilton boss". Autosport. Motorsport Network. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
  3. Wood, Elliot (24 June 2020). "Sauber relaunches its F1 junior programme with four drivers". FormulaScout. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  4. Wood, Elliot (29 January 2020). "Karters Harry Thompson and Miguel Costa become Sauber juniors". FormulaScout. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
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