Formula 1: Audi to supply engines for Sauber from 2026
- Sauber to cut ties with Alfa Romeo at the end of 2023 season, will continue to race with Ferrari engines for next 3 years
- Team principal Frédéric Vasseur calls partnership an honour and a ‘great responsibility’
Audi will make its entry into Formula One by supplying the engines for Sauber from 2026, the German manufacturer has said.
They will continue to use the Ferrari engine until the 2026 campaign.
“We already know the Sauber Group with its state-of-the-art facility and experienced team from previous collaborations and are convinced that together we will form a strong team,” Oliver Hoffmann, Audi AG board member responsible for the F1 programme, said.
Switzerland-based Sauber – who have just one race win, at the 2008 Canadian Grand Prix – in 30 seasons in Formula One were delighted to be the first team in Formula One to be supplied by Audi.
“To become Audi’s official works team is not only an honour and a great responsibility,” Frédéric Vasseur, Sauber Motorsport CEO, said. “It’s the best option for the future and we are fully confident we can help Audi achieve the objectives they have set for their journey in Formula 1.”
The engine will be developed at Audi Sport’s facility near Ingolstadt, a fact the company heralded in August when it announced their entry into Formula One, saying it would be “the first time in more than a decade that a Formula 1 power train will be built in Germany”.