Clean C21
Sauber C21 with the 2003 livery of the C22 |
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Constructor: | Sauber motorsport | ||||||||
Designer: | Willy Rampf | ||||||||
Predecessor: | Clean C20 | ||||||||
Successor: | Clean C22 | ||||||||
Technical specifications | |||||||||
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Engine: | Petronas 02A with 3.0 l displacement | ||||||||
Weight: | 600 kg | ||||||||
Tires: | Bridgestone | ||||||||
Petrol: | Petronas | ||||||||
statistics | |||||||||
Driver: | 7. N. Heidfeld, 8. F. Massa, 8. H. Frentzen |
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First start: | 2002 Australian Grand Prix | ||||||||
Last start: | 2002 Japanese Grand Prix | ||||||||
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World Cup points: | 11 | ||||||||
Podiums: | - | ||||||||
Leadership laps: | - | ||||||||
Status: end of season 2002 |
The Sauber C21 was a Formula 1 racing car, the Sauber Motorsport in 2002 in one Formula started World Championship.
Development history and technology
The C21 was designed by Willy Rampf and was the consistent further development of the C20 . The development goals included lowering the weight of the vehicle, a lower center of gravity, a torsion-resistant chassis, and optimizing the transmission and engine components as well as the wheel suspension. In 2002, Sauber received Ferrari's customer engines exclusively . The 3-liter V10 engines of the 051 series were used, which were used at Scuderia 2001 in the F2001 by Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello . Ferrari built 40 new engines for Sauber, which were branded as Petronas 02A V10 for sponsorship reasons. According to the contract, Sauber paid Ferrari £ 13 million for the units for a year.
There was a change for the drivers. Kimi Raikkonen left the team after just one year. McLaren driver Mika Häkkinen , who retired at the end of 2001 , recommended his compatriot Räikkönen to his former team, who was then bought out of the existing Sauber contract. The young Brazilian Felipe Massa , who had not yet contested a Formula 1 Grand Prix, joined the team for him. Nick Heidfeld stayed with Sauber.
Racing history
The C21 made its racing debut at the Australian Grand Prix in March 2002 at the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne. In qualification training, the Sauber drivers achieved ninth (Massa) and ten (Heidfeld). The fastest lap time, driven by Rubens Barrichello in a Ferrari F2001, was more than two seconds short. In the race, both drivers were involved in a collision at the start and dropped out on the first lap of the race. But in the second race of the season, the Malaysian Grand Prix , the first points were awarded to the new Sauber racing model. Nick Heidfeld was fifth and Felipe Massa finished the race in sixth, which meant he scored his first championship points at the second start of the race.
The further course of the season was changeable. On the one hand, the C21 suffered from technical problems and, on the other hand, better race placements were prevented by errors by the drivers. Massa has had several self-inflicted accidents and collisions. At the Italian Grand Prix he collided with Pedro de la Rosa's Jaguar R3B on lap 15 and received a penalty of ten starting positions for the next World Championship, the US Grand Prix . To avoid this, Heinz-Harald Frentzen was engaged for this one race , who finished the race in 13th place.
In the drivers' world championship, Nick Heidfeld finished the season in tenth (7 points) and Felipe Massa was 13th (4 points). In the constructors' championship, eleven points were enough for fifth place.
Results
driver | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 | 17th | Points | rank |
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Formula 1 season 2002 | 11 | 5. | ||||||||||||||||||
N. Heidfeld | 7th | DNF | 5 | DNF | 10 | 4th | DNF | 8th | 12 | 7th | 6th | 7th | 6th | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 7th | ||
F. Massa | 8th | DNF | 6th | DNF | 8th | 5 | DNF | DNF | 9 | 6th | 9 | DNF | 7th | 7th | DNF | DNF | DNF | |||
H. Frentzen | 13 |
Legend | ||
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colour | abbreviation | meaning |
gold | - | victory |
silver | - | 2nd place |
bronze | - | 3rd place |
green | - | Placement in the points |
blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
NC | not classified | |
red | DNQ | did not qualify |
DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
black | DSQ | disqualified |
White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
WD | withdrawn | |
Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
TD | Friday test driver | |
without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
INJ | injured or sick | |
EX | excluded | |
DNA | did not arrive | |
C. | Race canceled | |
no participation in the World Cup | ||
other | P / bold | Pole position |
SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
* | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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() | Streak results | |
underlined | Leader in the overall standings |
literature
- Adriano Cimarosti: The Century of Racing . Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9 .
- David Hodges: AZ of Grand Prix Cars 1906-2001 . 2001 (Crowood Press), ISBN 1-86126-339-2 (English).
- David Hodges: Racing cars from AZ after 1993 . Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 .
- Pierre Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1 . 2nd edition, St. Sulpice, 2000, ISBN 2-940125-45-7 (French).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the Sauber C21
- ↑ Information about the Sauber C21 ff
- ^ Qualifying training for the 2002 Australian Grand Prix
- ↑ Classification for the 2002 Australian Grand Prix
- ↑ Classification for the Malaysian Grand Prix 2002
- ↑ Classification for the 2002 Italian Grand Prix
- ↑ Classification for the 2002 US Grand Prix