Sauber workforce principal Jonathan Wheatley has insisted that P6 within the constructors’ championship remains to be within the “realms of risk” regardless of a good struggle in the midst of the standings.
The Mexico Grand Prix resulted in a Tenth-place end for Gabriel Bortoleto and a retirement for Nico Hulkenberg.
With 4 rounds remaining within the 2025 season, which embrace two dash races, Sauber sits ninth within the standings with 60 factors. Solely 12 factors separate the Swiss-based workforce and Racing Bulls in sixth, with Aston Martin and Haas in between.
“So let us take a look at the factors desk initially. So Haas took a giant chunk out of us right this moment within the championship. Knocks us right down to P9, as I sit right here right this moment,” Wheatley defined after the race at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez.
“However the margins are actually shut within the factors. One good weekend can swing it in a very completely different course. Genuinely, mathematically, P6 is not out of all realms of risk.”
After strolling away from the Mexico Grand Prix with only one level, Wheatley remained constructive in regards to the positive aspects the workforce is making each weekend.
“We talked earlier than about how nicely you need to execute each race as a result of the margins are so shut,” he continued. “And I feel for a younger workforce that is rising and knitting collectively, we’re doing an inexpensive job of that in the meanwhile. And I can really feel the continual enchancment.
Gabriel Bortoleto, Sauber
Photograph by: Hector Vivas / Getty Photographs
“I can really feel the positive aspects each race weekend. However we’re nonetheless punching towards groups which might be actually established and have gotten robust engineering groups which have been working collectively for a very long time.
“So I find it irresistible. It is a championship. We’re within the hunt. And I am going to by no means surrender till it is mathematically unimaginable.”
McLaren’s Lando Norris claimed the lead of the drivers’ championship along with his victory in Mexico from pole place. Becoming a member of the Briton on the rostrum had been Charles Leclerc in second and Max Verstappen in third.
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