Sauber Academy racers prepare for a fresh start

In the remaining month and a half of spring, the students of the Sauber Academy will have to spend many races in different series, from Formula 2 to the European Karting Championship, and the team from Hinvil decided to remind who they connect their future with.

The season has already started for some of these young talents – most notably 19-year-old Frenchman Theo Pourcher, who drives in Formula 2 for the ART team, and who also serves as reserve driver for Alfa Romeo F1.

Purscher started the season by taking pole position at the first round of the season in Bahrain. In the sprint on Saturday he then took 5th place and on Sunday he won the main race of the weekend. But in the second leg of the season in Saudi Arabia he was not lucky, there he did not earn any points at all, although he remained in the lead in the individual ranking of the youth series.

No one doubts Theo’s speed, which he confirmed in Melbourne, where Formula 2 toured for the first time: he set a 2nd fastest time in qualifying, then took second place on Sunday, although he didn’t even finish in the sprint afterwards. made it to the finish, the team made a misjudgment in the choice of rubber during the race, which took place under varying weather conditions.

So far, after three stages of the season, Pursher is in second place, behind Ayumu Ivasa, the new leader of the individual classification, with only 8 points, so in Baku on the last weekend of April she will try to win back . In addition, Theo works intensively on the simulator at the Hinwil base during the breaks between races to help the team progress on the track.

Swiss driver Lena Buhler is gearing up for her debut in the newly established F1 Academy Women’s Series, racing for ART. The first leg of the new series will take place on April 29 at the Red Bull Ring in Austria, and the 25-year-old racer recently worked on official testing in Barcelona.

Finnish-born but French-licensed Marcus Amand, 17, is set to make his debut season in European Formula Regional starting next weekend with the Imola round. In preparation for this championship, Marcus has already tested in Barcelona, ​​​​Le Castellet and Monza.

So far he has had karting and achievements in Italian and German F4, where he has already won qualifying and climbed the podium, so the Sauber Academy hopes he will prove himself well at a regional Formula level.

Finally, the young German driver Thame Saleh continues his karting career with the Sauber Karting Team. In the first stage of the Euroseries “Champions of the Future” in Valencia, he did not reach the finish line, but he managed to improve the situation somewhat in the stage of the European Kart Championship, which was held on the same Spanish circuit named after Ricardo Tormo. Then he won the pole position, and in the race he took 4th place and is still on the third line of the personal classification.