
Wonderbar! - It's the new Sauber
- Published on Jan 31st, 2010 by Adam MilleneuveWith the first official F1 test due to start in less that 24hrs, the new cars are appearing thick and fast. Renault's 2010 car is due to break cover later, but for now here's the new Sauber F1 car. It's rather confusing - BMW have pulled out of F1, but the team remains as "BMW Sauber F1 Team" - but with completely new drivers with the line up of veteran Pedro De La Rosa and Kamui Kobayashi. The latter impressed during his F1 debut with Toyota at the end of 2009, which no doubt helped him earn a full season race seat alongide McLaren's ex-test driver De La Rosa. It could be a cracker of a line up - De La Rosa is a seasoned car developer and Kamui can drive the wheels of anything and fight with the best of the pack, going by his performances in Brazil and Abu Dhabi.
Anyhow, here's the new car in pictures:

The lack of sponsorship is worrying, but can't be for too much longer. Over the years, the team's main sponsors have been Petronas (now with Mercedes GP), Red Bull (now with their own team) and Intel who also seem to have gone elsewhere along with the BMW logos. It's not all doom and gloom though, they have announce a deal with an Japanese cosmetic company and their product 'Scalp-D' a shampoo that helps your scalp. How rock n roll....
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Comments and Discussion
There are no words to describe this pure beauty of a car...
really? they could at least make an attempt of proper livery... we'd be happy if they put a badger on it at least!
What? You dont like the virgin white/plain black colour scheme? I love it!
the car looks great, has some individual features, the line on the side pods of the radiator intake is beautiful. just wish it didn't have the BMW stripes on it, otherwise the black and white looks great.
Minimalist black and white looks good - I like it.
Ah yes, i'd forgotten that Sauber's original colour was black. Pity there's not more of it on the car!
These new extra-high noses that Sauber and Williams have gone for are not pretty, though of all the new cars seen so far, the C29 is the most original one; being that on the surface at least, there are no RB5-looking parts.
Whether the BMW Sauber design team have found a different way or the wrong way remains to be seen.