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- 1982 was a significant year for Peter Sauber. He was commissioned by the Swiss composite materials manufacturer Seger & Hoffmann to build a car for the Group C World Sports Car Championship.
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After opting not to run the family traffic light business, Peter built the Sauber C1 (the C stands for Christiane, the name of his wife) in his parents' basement. It was a car of tubular frame, powered by a 1-litre Ford Cosworth engine. He subsequently drove it to the 1970 Swiss hillclimb championship.
1982 was a significant year for Peter Sauber. He was commissioned by the Swiss composite materials manufacturer Seger & Hoffmann to build a car for the Group C World Sports Car Championship. The Sauber C6 was born.
Nov 26, 2021 · Peter Sauber, born on 13 October 1943 in Zurich, has raced a number of famous drivers from 1970 to 2021. Among them were four F1 world champions: Kimi Räikkönen, Sebastian Vettel, Jacques Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher.
Peter Sauber sold the family business (that manufactured traffic lights) so that he could start building cars for the Swiss Hillclimb Championship. Sports cars followed in the mid-1970s and Herbert Müller won the 1976 Interserie with a Sauber C5-BMW.
Jun 29, 2020 · 1989 was the most successful year for Sauber’s sports cars with the double victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans as well as winning the Team and Constructors’ World Sports Car Championship. Sauber rates this as one of the most underrated landmarks in the team’s 50 years of being in motorsport.
May 11, 2020 · The first foray of founder, Peter Sauber, as a constructor dates back to that golden year indeed. It was then than the Swiss man made his first foray as a constructor, launching his eponymous team and building his original C1 sportscar.
2 days ago · The Sauber C8 was the first with Mercedes power and paved the way for the C9. This is John Nielsen and Henri Pescarolo in 1986. Sauber’s team might have been a minnow of the sports car world at that time, but he had a receptive response from Mercedes, where a group of motor sport-minded road car engineers had already taken a close look at the Group C regs.
