Sauber to drop BMW from its name in 2011

[keshy]

F1's Swiss team will keep the 'BMW' in its name until the end of the season.

After the F1 Commission meeting on Monday, it emerged that the BMW Sauber F1 Team had applied to change its name to simply Sauber Motorsport.

The next step was the approval of F1's governing body, who met for a World Motor Sport Council meeting in Geneva on Wednesday.

A spokesman for the Hinwil based team said on Thursday that the FIA approved Sauber's request, with the change to take effect after November's season finale in Abu Dhabi.

Source: GMM

 

[^pomen_GTR^]

petronas now the main sponsor? :hmmmm:

 

[MiTec-i]

petronas sponsors Mercedes....

 

[yeehau86]

actually BMW already quitted F1 by the end of 2009, just that they remain the BMW name in their car this year for some reason. After BMW announced that they will quit by end of 2009, Peter Sauber quickly buys over the company in order to maintain his ex-team that he sponsored last time at Sauber Petronas where we see Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa used to be driving at that team.

That is why you see the Sauber team using Ferrari engine now, instead of BMW engine.