Sauber’s Marcus Ericsson and Felipe Nasr are looking to steadily improve their performance over the race weekend at the Spanish Grand Prix.
The team are currently without points in tenth place in the Constructors’ Championship, but Ericsson did finish in their joint second-best finishing position of the season in 14th place at the last race in Russia.
This is despite a concerning time for the team as they confirmed that they would not have any new parts for the race and would not be taking part in the post-race test due to not having a young or test driver. The team will at least have a small boost this weekend as they are receiving an engine upgrade from Ferrari.
For this weekend, Ericsson wants to steadily improve their racing on a track they have much experience at.
“The Spanish Grand Prix always kicks off Formula One’s European season,” the Swede said.
“We all know the track very well from winter testing. It will be interesting to see how the C35 behaves in warmer conditions compared to the colder ones during testing in February.
“I am looking forward to racing there and hope we can make another step in the right direction.”
Nasr is thinking towards improving their qualifying position, with the Russian Grand Prix being the second time this season that both Sauber cars went out in Q1, and with Ericsson, the second time a Sauber driver qualified at the back of the grid.
“The Spanish Grand Prix is one milestone in the Formula One calendar,” the Brazilian said. In general we and the other teams have a lot of data from the track in Barcelona, as we ran most of our test kilometres there.
“For the race weekend it will be important to achieve a satisfying qualifying position, because overtaking is, in general, difficult on this circuit.”
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