Clean C21

**Clean C21**
	Sauber C21 with the 2003 livery of the C22
Constructor:	Sauber motorsport
Designer:	Willy Rampf
Predecessor:	Clean C20
Successor:	Clean C22
Technical specifications
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 ; ;
First start:	2002 Australian Grand Prix
Last start:	2002 Japanese Grand Prix
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
Formula 1 season 2002																			11	5.
Germany N. Heidfeld	7th	DNF	5	DNF	10	4th	DNF	8th	12	7th	6th	7th	6th	9	10	10	9	7th
Brazil F. Massa	8th	DNF	6th	DNF	8th	5	DNF	DNF	9	6th	9	DNF	7th	7th	DNF	DNF		DNF
Germany H. Frentzen	8th																13

Legend
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)
violet	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
red	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
White	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
Light Blue	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
	()	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

[1] Information about the Sauber C21

[2] Information about the Sauber C21 ff

[3] Qualifying training for the 2002 Australian Grand Prix

[4] Classification for the 2002 Australian Grand Prix

[5] Classification for the Malaysian Grand Prix 2002

[6] Classification for the 2002 Italian Grand Prix

[7] Classification for the 2002 US Grand Prix