FRANKFURT/LONDON — Audi has agreed to take a stake in Swiss-based Sauber Group, whose workforce will turn into the German automaker’s works entry in Components One from 2026.
No monetary particulars have been disclosed within the assertion.
Sauber has been concerned in Components One since 1993 and presently competes with Ferrari engines, beneath the title of Alfa Romeo, a Stellantis model.
Audi, owned by Volkswagen Group, introduced in August that it might enter Components One racing beneath new engine guidelines coming in for 2026, with its personal energy unit to be inbuilt Neuburg, Bavaria.
“Collectively we need to write the following chapter from 2026,” Adam Baker, CEO of Audi Components Racing stated.
Sauber Motorsport stated in a press release that the workforce will proceed to make use of Ferrari energy items for the following three seasons till the foundations change.
“Audi is one of the best strategic associate for the Sauber Group,” stated Sauber Holding’s board Chairman Finn Rausing, the Swedish billionaire whose household owns packaging firm Tetra Laval.
“It’s clear that we share values and a imaginative and prescient, and we look ahead to attaining our widespread targets in a robust and profitable partnership.”
Porsche, which lately listed in Frankfurt, continues to be speaking with groups about coming into Components One after discussions with champions Purple Bull broke down, the game’s governing physique stated final week.
Components One’s subsequent era of energy items may have considerably extra electrical energy and use one hundred pc sustainable fuels from 2026.
Components One can be aiming to realize a internet zero carbon footprint by 2030, which Audi Chairman Markus Duesmann stated in August was a ‘boundary situation’ for the automaker’s entry.