Carlos Sainz did not decide on the Audi project and preferred Williams. And now the new boss, Mattia Binottoproved him right. Because he doesn’t think they’ll get good results for several years. Right now, Sauber is one of the worst teams on the entire Formula 1 grid.
In ‘SoyMotor’, Binotto acknowledges that there are years left: “We know how difficult it is to transform a normal team into a winning team and how long it takes. If you look at the past, Recent cases show that it takes not one, but several seasons, several years“.
“We are ambitious, but also aware of the magnitude of the challenge. It is a transformation of the company that concerns people, processes, methodology, facilities, everyone’s roles, mindset… everything,” says the new head of Valtteri Bottas and Guanyu Zhou.
He insists on this “chasm” of difference between a winning team and a team at the bottom of the grid: “We must take into account the fact that The gap between a winning team and a mid-table team is very wide. But we have the resources and the support of Audi and we hope to achieve this.”
“In this profession We must be honest with ourselves and not deceive ourselves. “We know that improving the last tenths is the most difficult. Starting from where we are, we can improve a lot in the coming seasons, be competitive… but being at the top is more complicated,” said the Italian coach.
And the reality is that big teams like Red Bull or Mercedes It took them several years to be able to be in the fight. And Audi, with the new 2026 regulations, assumes that it will be very far from the fight and that It will take at least five years to move forward.
