Sauber C22
The Sauber C22 was a Formula 1 racing car, the Sauber Motorsport began in the 2003 Formula 1 World Championship.
Development history and technology
In 2003, the team of Peter Sauber was awarded the exclusive Formula 1 customer engines of the Scuderia Ferrari. As in the previous year, the aggregate was branded as a sponsor reasons Petronas V10. This time with the type designation 03A. The constructed by Willy Rampf car had a far-reaching development of the C22.
The driver pairing were the two German Heinz- Harald Frentzen and Nick Heidfeld. Felipe Massa had left the team for a year and took test work at Ferrari.
Racing history
His racing debut of the C22 at the Australian Grand Prix in March 2003. During qualifying training Heinz -Harald Frentzen scored in 1:28,274 minutes, the fourth fastest time and was there only nearly a second slower than Michael Schumacher in the Ferrari F2002. Nick Heidfeld qualified his C22 at the seventh place. The race ended Frentzen sixth, while Heidfeld failed with a broken front suspension. In the second race of the season, the Malaysian Grand Prix, which ended with the first Grand Prix victory of the Finn Kimi Raikkonen in the McLaren MP4 - 17D, both C22 came to the finish. Nick Heidfeld finished the race in eighth place, and thus scored his first World Cup of the season. Frentzen was a place behind in ninth place finish.
At the third race of the season, the Brazilian Grand Prix, there was again points for Sauber. The race was canceled after serious accidents by Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso on the final straight and ended with a re- debut victory by Giancarlo Fisichella in the Jordan EJ13; Frentzen was considered a fifth.
These successes to the beginning of the year were at Sauber hope for a strong season rise, but over the summer race slipped the C22 both in the training and in the race continues into the back from midfield. Only at the penultimate round of the year, the U.S. Grand Prix, the C22 came back into the top box. Heinz -Harald Frentzen, who had even led a lap, came in third place and thus the podium; Nick Heidfeld was fifth.
The constructors' championship in 2003 ended Sauber with 19 points as sixth overall.