In the round-up: Sauber believe they have a chance of scoring points this weekend after finishing best-of-the-rest in Bahrain.
In brief
Qualifying key to Sauber points chance
Sauber team representative Alessandro Alunni Bravi drew encouragement from the team’s performance in Bahrain where Zhou Guanyu rose from 17th on the grid to finish 11th.
“We saw what we can deliver in race conditions, having been convincingly the sixth-best team in the race in Bahrain, and we think we can make one further step this weekend,” he said. “We know where we need to improve, both in terms of car and in terms of execution.
“Our single-lap performance has to be better, as positions higher up the grid would allow us to be in the thick of the battle for the final points-paying positions right from the start of the race, and we need to keep working to refine the set-up of the car to extract its full potential.”
Saudi Arabian GP stewards confirmed
The four stewards for this weekend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix are FIA stewards Nish Shetty and Matteo Perini, ex-F1 driver Vitantonio Liuzzi and national steward Hassan Alabdali. Shetty and Alabdali officiated the same race last year, during which FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem is alleged to have pushed for Fernando Alonso’s post-race penalty to be overturned.
Las Vegas tickets available next week
Tickets for this year’s Las Vegas Grand Prix will go on sale to the general public on March 25th. Advance sales to American Express card members will begin 12 days earlier and locals will be able to buy tickets from the 22nd.
New seating options will be offered this year including more than 7,000 general admission tickets. These will be priced at $600 for a three-day ticket, or $125, $225 and $350 respectively for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. All prices exclude taxes and fees.
Car site pulls F1 essay
Why did Road and Track earlier this month publish, then delete from its website, a 5,700-word behind-the-scenes account of Saturday at last year’s United States Grand Prix? Kate Wagner wrote the piece after taking up an offer to attend the race as a guest of Mercedes F1 team sponsor and part-owner Ineos.
The piece, published under the title ‘Behind F1’s Velvet Curtain’, was described as a “skewering” of F1 by The Washington Post. Road and Track’s editor-in-chief Daniel Pund told Defector, “the story was taken down because I felt it was the wrong story for our publication,” and denied they been put under pressure to…
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