{"id":14579,"date":"2025-07-18T12:45:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/saubers-audi-transition-is-already-fruitful-wheatley-says\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T12:45:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:45:44","slug":"saubers-audi-transition-is-already-fruitful-wheatley-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/saubers-audi-transition-is-already-fruitful-wheatley-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauber&#8217;s Audi transition is already fruitful, Wheatley says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">Sauber Team Principal Jonathan Wheatley said the recent improvements and results indicate the possibility of becoming the Audi Formula Works team next season.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">Nico Halkenberg<\/span><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-1q1hspp\">    (Photo above, photo with Wheatley)<\/span><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">    A surprising drive at the British Grand Prix led him to the first podium of his Formula One career, finishing third, holding down Lewis Hamilton in the second part of the race. The result is a clear step high from Sauber, following his update at Barcelona, following his points in every race and becoming the fourth-highest scoring team at that point.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">&#8220;We talked about how important the team&#8217;s momentum is,&#8221; Wheatley said. &#8220;What I&#8217;m taking from (Silverstone) is that people start to believe in us.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">&#8220;I can say the words. I can say we are gaining momentum. We can say we have performances on the table. Mattia (Binot, Chief Technical Officer) and all the hard work he had placed before he came here will be revealed.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">Wheatley says both Hulkenberg and teammate Gabriel Bortoleto were able to show what they are, courtesy of the changes in the car&#8217;s characteristics brought about by the recent upgrade.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">&#8220;I think since Barcelona, we all have confidence in both drivers of our cars,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I used to be very Peeky.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">&#8220;You probably noticed that it&#8217;s difficult for drivers to consistently improve their qualifying. This was one of our big problems. In Jeddah, even the brakes remembered on turn 1. Both drivers had problems.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">Following Hulkenberg&#8217;s podium at Silverstone, Sauber finished sixth in the Constructors Championship, 18 points behind Williams in fifth place.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sauber Team Principal Jonathan Wheatley said the recent improvements and results indicate the possibility of becoming the Audi Formula Works team next season. Nico Halkenberg (Photo above, photo with Wheatley) A surprising drive at the British Grand Prix led him to the first podium of his Formula One career, finishing third, holding down Lewis Hamilton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[19,18,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-14579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-formula","9":"tag-formula-racing","10":"tag-racing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}