May 2008
9th May - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Turkish GP
Practice
At the unexpectedly cold Istanbul Park the
BMW Sauber F1 Team drivers were 12th and 6th (Robert Kubica)
and 7th and 10th (Nick Heidfeld) respectively
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2nd May - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Turkish GP
Preview
The next stop on the world tour will see
the Formula One entourage doing a daily commute between
two continents: from the hotels and events on the European
side of the sprawling city of Istanbul to the race track
on the Asian side of the Bosphorus
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April 2008
28th Apl - BMW Sauber F1 Team Pit Lane Park
season starts in Istanbul.
The BMW Sauber F1 Team achieved three podium
finishes and one pole position in the first races of the
FIA Formula One World Championship
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27th Apl - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Spanish GP
Race
The BMW Sauber F1 Team ended up with five
Championship points for Robert Kubica after an action packed
Spanish Grand Prix
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26th Apl - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Spanish GP
Qualifying
The BMW Sauber F1 Team drivers, Robert Kubica
and Nick Heidfeld, qualified fourth and ninth respectively
for the curtain raiser to the European season in Barcelona.
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25th Apl - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Spanish GP
Practice
The BMW Sauber F1 Team had a smooth first
practice day for the weekend of the Spanish Grand Prix.
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23rd Apl - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Heidfeld
brings Formula One to BMW Plant in Munich.
The assembly lines came to a standstill and
the workforce gathered in anticipation in front of the production
halls.
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18th Apl - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Spanish GP
Preview
The BMW Sauber F1 Team has barely embarked
on its third season and is already heading for its first
Formula One grand prix as the leader of the constructors’
championship
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17th Apl - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Barcelona
Due to rain in the morning and even a thunderstorm
in the afternoon BMW Sauber F1 Team – as everybody
else – had to shorten its programme for today.
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16th Apl - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Barcelona
Robert Kubica’s work today concentrated
on two different areas. The first one included testing of
different setups and aerodynamical solutions in preparation
for the forthcoming Spanish Grand Prix.
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15th Apl - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Barcelona
Again Nick Heidfeld concentrated on setup
work related to next week’s Spanish round of the World
Championship
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14th Apl - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Barcelona
Today Nick Heidfeld worked on the aerodynamical
and mechanical setup of the BMW Sauber F1.08.
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6th Apl - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Bahrain Grand
Prix Race
The third podium in the third race –
this was really a tailor made start to the season for our
team
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5th Apl - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Bahrain Grand
Prix Qualifying
The Pole is on pole - the BMW Sauber F1 Team
celebrates its first fastest time in qualifying.
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4th Apl - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Bahrain Grand
Prix Practice
It was a trouble free Friday for the BMW
Sauber F1 Team in the desert. Just as the team had planned,
Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld used the first two practice
sessions to prepare for the Bahrain Grand Prix.
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March 2008
31st Mar - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Interview
with BMW Motorsport Director Mario Theissen
“Taking a bold concept leap has paid
off” How do you review the situation after the first
two races of the season?
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28th Mar - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Bahrain Grand
Prix Preview
Two races, two consecutive second places,
a tally of 19 points, second in the constructors’
championship – the BMW Sauber F1 Team has made a textbook
start to the 2008 season.
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23rd Mar - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Malaysian
Grand Prix Race
In the humid heat of Sepang the BMW Sauber
F1 Team scored 11 championship points – the best result
for the young crew so far.
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22nd Mar - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Malaysian
Grand Prix Qualifying
BMW Sauber F1 Team drivers, Robert Kubica
and Hick Heidfeld, came sixth and seventh respectively in
the qualifying session for the PETRONAS Malaysian Grand
Prix
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21st Mar - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Malaysian
Grand Prix Practice
The BMW Sauber F1 Team overall had a positive
start to the weekend of the PETRONAS Malaysian Grand Prix
in the humid heat of Sepang.
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16th Mar - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Malaysian
Grand Prix Preview
The BMW Sauber F1 Team heads for a home event
this coming weekend, exactly 9,778 kilometres distant from
Munich and 10,012 kilometres from the Swiss headquarters
at Hinwil
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16th Mar - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Australian
Grand Prix Race
The BMW Sauber F1 Team has achieved its fifth
podium in its short career. Nick Heidfeld came second at
the Australian Grand Prix.
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15th Mar - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Australian
Grand Prix Qualifying
At the opening race of what is its third
season the BMW Sauber F1 Team achieved its best ever qualifying
result to date
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14th Mar - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Australian
Grand Prix Practice
Unusual heat, strong winds and consequently
a high amount of dust in Melbourne’s Albert Park welcomed
Formula One for the curtain raiser of the 2008 season
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13th Mar - The BMW Sauber F1 Team and Certina
extend their partnership.
The Swiss sports watchmaker has been an Official
Partner of the team since it was founded and reaps the benefits
of the brand’s global visibility, advertising rights
and the use of various BMW Sauber F1 Team event platforms.
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7th Mar - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Australian
Grand Prix Preview
Things are hotting up. This weekend sees
man and machinery embarking on the long trip to Australia.
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February 2008
28th Feb - The BMW Sauber F1 Team drivers
in conversation.
Here drivers Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica
talk about the recent winter break and their expectations
for the BMW Sauber F1 Team’s third season on the grid.
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27th Feb - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Barcelona
With the third day of testing in Barcelona
the team basically concluded the preparation for the 2008
season.
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26th Feb - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Barcelona
On the second of the Barcelona test days
Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld continued to work on the
mechanical and aerodynamical set-up of the BMW Sauber F1.08
as well as gaining more experience with the standard ECU.
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25th Feb - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Barcelona
Due to the wet track proper test work was
delayed until the latter part of the morning session
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21st Feb - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Valencia
Today the team’s new test driver Christian
Klien drove the BMW Sauber F1.08 for the first time familiarizing
himself with the car and working procedures of the team.
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20th Feb - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Valencia
In the morning the team did a full race simulation
following the official time schedule and pre- race procedures
of a race day.
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19th Feb - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Valencia
Due to the bad weather conditions the team
could not run the first of three test days as scheduled
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14th Feb - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Jerez
Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld concluded
the three days test in Jerez with development work of the
new BMW Sauber F1.08.
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13th Feb - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Jerez
Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld continued
to work on the general set-up of the BMW Sauber F1.08 following
the test schedule as planned.
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12th Feb - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Jerez
Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld drove the
two BMW Sauber F1.08 during the first of three test days
in Jerez.
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3rd Feb - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Barcelona
Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld continued
work on the set-up of the F1.08 car. Kubica’s car
ran without major problems
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2nd Feb - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Barcelona
Both cars ran without technical problems,
although the test sessions were again hampered by the low
track and air temperatures.
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2nd Feb - BMW Sauber F1 Team - takes Klien
and Asmer on board.
Austrian Christian Klien has been signed
up as a test and reserve driver while Marko Asmer of Estonia
comes on board as a second junior test driver.
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1st Feb - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Barcelona
Avoiding quite low track temperatures in
the early morning (around 6 °C) the team started proper
testing not before 11 a.m.
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January 2008
24th Jan - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Valencia
In terms of reliability the F1.08 is already
very good. We have covered numerous laps without any noteworthy
problems to date.
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23rd Jan - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Valencia
Nick Heidfeld drove the F1.07B. He had a
limited programme and concentrated on systems settings.
He did a lot of valuable work that can be transferred to
the new car.
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22nd Jan - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Valencia
Nick Heidfeld conducted development work
with the BMW Sauber F1.08 going through various aerodynamic
comparisons and suspension settings
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18th Jan - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Valencia
In the morning the team lost some time due
to a mechanical problem with the power steering on Nick’s
car.
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17th Jan - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Valencia
The BMW Sauber F1 Team had a productive day’s
testing in Valencia
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16th Jan - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Valencia
The first scheduled proper test day with
the new F1.08 driven by Robert in Valencia was hampered
by adverse weather conditions as there were very strong
winds in Valencia.
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15th Jan - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Valencia
The maiden laps of the BMW Sauber F1 Team’s
new car went off according to plan.
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14th Jan - BMW Sauber F1.08 unveiled in Munich.
The BMW Sauber F1 Team took delivery of the
fastest car in the BMW range at BMW Welt in Munich today
(Monday).
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11th Jan - BMW Sauber F1 Team welcomes Cadence
as official equipment supplier.
Cadence Design Systems, a leader in the development
of innovative electronic designs, has signed up as a new
official equipment supplier to the BMW Sauber F1 Team
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11th Jan - BMW Sauber F1 Team and T-Systems
launch technology partnership.
The BMW Sauber F1 Team will line up for the
2008 season with a new technology partner on board.
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December 2007
14th Dec - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Graham Rahal
to drive in the BMW Sauber F1 Team Pit Lane Park
When the BMW Sauber F1 Team Pit Lane Park
visits Las Vegas in the U.S. state of Nevada from 7th to
10th January 2008, the world-renowned entertainment capital
won’t be alone in celebrating a Formula One comeback.
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7th Dec - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Jerez
Before Robert Kubica went out for his first
run of the day members of the team stood in front of his
car in the garage and sang Happy Birthday, as this was his
23rd birthday
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6th Dec - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Jerez
Nick Heidfeld completed his third and final
day at this last test of 2007, while for Robert Kubica it
was day two of three.
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5th Dec - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Jerez
Nick Heidfeld was in the car for the second
day running, while for Robert Kubica it was the first day
of his three day test.
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4th Dec - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Testing Jerez
The first day of the last test in 2007 for
the BMW Sauber F1 Team was very successful
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3rd Dec - BMW Motorsport Party 2007 - Grand
finale in Munich.
Around 600 international guests were joined
by the BMW drivers and BMW Motorsport management to see
out the 2007 season in style with a party and presentation
of trophies at BMW's home base on Saturday.
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1st Dec - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Test opportunity
in Jerez for Marko Asmer and Javier Villa.
During next week’s test in Jerez the
BMW Sauber F1 Team will give young drivers Marko Asmer (23,
Estonia) and Javier Villa (20, Spain) a chance to drive
the BMW Sauber F1.07.
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November 2007
23rd Nov - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Vietoris
and Farfus thrilled at chance to drive a BMW Sauber F1 Team
car
A dream came true on Thursday for Christian
Vietoris (GER) and BMW works driver Augusto Farfus (BRA):
both drove with the BMW Sauber F1 Team
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20th Nov - BMW - Interview with BMW Motorsport
Director Mario Theissen.
It was a strong season at the end of which
we even managed to crack the 100 points barrier. We went
into the season having finished fifth in the World Championship
on 36 points in our debut year.
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19th Nov - BMW WTCC - BMW and Andy Priaulx
successfully defend their WTCC titles in Macau.
Andy Priaulx (GBR) of BMW Team UK claimed
his third consecutive drivers' title in the FIA World Touring
Car Championship.
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15th Nov - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Barcelona
Testing
For the third and final day of the first
winter test the task list was basically the same as for
the two previous days
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14th Nov - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Barcelona
Testing
With the same drivers as yesterday continuing
in the same cars, the test programme again focused on testing
the new standard ECU for 2008.
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13th Nov - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Barcelona
Testing
During the three-day Barcelona test the BMW
Sauber F1 Team is focusing on testing the new standard ECU
which will be mandatory in all F1 cars in 2008
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October 2007
29th Oct - BMW Sauber F1 Team appoints Christoph
Zimmermann as new Chief Designer.
The BMW Sauber F1 Team is bolstering its
technical department and has appointed Christoph Zimmermann
to be its new Chief Designer.
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21st Oct - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Brazilian
Grand Prix - Race
The BMW Sauber F1 Team has ended the 2007
season on a high at the final race of the season in Brazil.
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20th Oct - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Brazilian
Grand Prix - Qualifying
In a sudden change of weather conditions
to hot and sunny, the BMW Sauber F1 Team drivers qualified
for the Brazilian Grand Prix at the Interlagos circuit with
Nick Heidfeld sixth and Robert Kubica seventh.
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19th Oct - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Brazilian
Grand Prix - Practice
It was a trouble free day for the BMW Sauber
F1 Team at the Interlagos track on the first day of free
practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix.
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16th Oct - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Pit Lane
Park to visit Las Vegas
From January 7 to 10 2008, the spectacular
Pit Lane Park will be stopping off in America's entertainment
capital.
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12th Oct - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Brazilian
Grand Prix - Preview
While attention will largely be trained on
the three-way battle for the drivers' crown in the Formula
One World Championship, the BMW Sauber F1 Team has had its
championship runner-up position safely wrapped up well before
the final in Brazil.
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7th Oct - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Chinese Grand
Prix Race
The BMW Sauber F1 Team scored two points
in an action packed Chinese Grand Prix. Nick Heidfeld finished
seventh after having been unlucky with the timing when changing
from wets to dry weather tyres.
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6th Oct - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Chinese Grand
Prix Qualifying
The BMW Sauber F1 Team drivers qualified
eighth and ninth in Shanghai for the Chinese Grand Prix.
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5th Oct - BMW Sauber F1 Team - Chinese Grand
Prix Practice
The BMW Sauber F1 Team had a disappointing
Friday at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix weekend. Robert
Kubica was sixth and 14th and was unhappy with the set-up
of his car.
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1st Oct - BMW WTCC - Monza Preview
This weekend the BMW national teams will
be lining up at the "Autodromo Nazionale di Monza"
for rounds 19 and 20 of the FIA World Touring Car Championship.
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