Swiss-based Sauber have gone separate ways with primary Monisha Kaltenborn, the principal lady to run a Formula One outfit, the team’s proprietors said on Wednesday.
“Longbow Finance SA regrets to announce that, by mutual consent and due to diverging views of the future of the company, Monisha Kaltenborn will leave her positions with the Sauber Group effective immediately,” they said in a statement.
“Her successor will be announced shortly,” it added.
The team are expected to contend this end of the week at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku.
No points of interest were given about the ‘wandering perspectives’ yet board director Pascal Picci issued a different explanation, indignantly dismissing hypothesis that it concerned the status of the team’s drivers and a longing to support Sweden’s Marcus Ericsson.
“The owners and board of Sauber Motorsport AG take strong exception to speculative and widespread media reports today that our race drivers have not been, and are not being, treated equally,” he said.
“This is not only patently untrue, it would be contrary to the team’s absolute and longstanding commitment to fair competition.
“These reports, attributed to anonymous ‘sources’, are highly detrimental to both Marcus Ericsson and Pascal Wehrlein as well as to the management and all staff of the Sauber F1 Team.”
Ericsson still can’t seem to score a point in seven races this season however have essential patrons while Wehrlein, who has a long haul Mercedes contract, completed eighth in Spain in May.
Motorsport.com said the terms of Kaltenborn’s flight were all the while being worked out.
Kaltenborn, an Indian-conceived Austrian national, assumed control from team originator Peter Sauber in 2012.
The game’s first lady team foremost, and the second Indian-conceived after Force India’s Vijay Mallya, Kaltenborn joined Sauber in 2000 to run the lawful division and assumed control as CEO in 2010.
The team fell on harsh circumstances in late seasons, attempting to score focuses a year ago, yet the budgetary issues facilitated when Longbow, a Swiss-based venture organization, assumed control in July a year ago.
They as of late concurred with Honda to change to the Japanese producer’s engines one year from now as opposed to utilizing year-old Ferrari ones.
Kaltenborn’s flight will leave previous champions Williams as the main team with a lady in control. Claire Williams is authoritatively the agent foremost to father and organizer Frank yet adequately runs the team everyday.
