Bojan Vrbnjak
End October last year it was only announced that the collaboration between the Swiss team Clean in Alfa Romeo extended, but only for one year. The question is, how will it continue after the end of the cooperation?
As we know, it is a concern Fiat Chrysler (FCA) in 2018 deepened the collaboration with the Swiss team, making 2019 a name Clean disappeared and the team performed under a name Alfa Romeo Racing. This cooperation has been extended until the end of this year. It is known that the contract between FCA in Saubers assumes to race with Ferrari engines and that he has Maranello the right to one seat, which he will occupy again this year Giovinazzi. Ferrari and Sauber have been working together for many years, their roots going back to Peter Sauber in Jean Todt. Their friendship laid the groundwork for Ferrari engines in Sauber race cars. In Sergio Marchionne Sauber chose Alfa Romeo at the time because of the image of the collaboration with Haas it was not possible because the American did not want to have a young Ferrari Academy racer in his car, nor did he want an advertisement for an Alfa Romeo in this form. ,,
As a result, the plan also failed Marchionne, yes from Sauber make a team Alfa Romeo Racing, with the team Haas however, I would return the brand to Formula 1 Maserati. It's July 2018 Marchionne died and without a great proponent of a solution "Sauber as Alfa Romeo”The question arises as to whether this cooperation will continue. Managers will have to find the answer Stellantis, a new car holding company formed by the merger of the French group PSA (with Peugeot, Citroen, DS, Opel and Vauxhall brands) and the concern Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles FCA (Fiat, Abarth, Lancia, Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram Trucks). There are basically three options: Partnership will be found valuable enough to continue. In this case, it stays with the technique Ferrari under the name Alfa Romeo. The logical duration of cooperation would be from 2022 to 2025, ie as long as the current drive units are in force. For reasons of continuity and financial commitment FCA at Sauber this is the solution that the team boss also wants Frederic Vasseur. How much the FCA pays for Alfa Romeo's performance, however, is unknown.
However, it is also possible that they will Carlos Tavares, Executive Director Stellantis and Chairman of the Board John Elkann, who is also the boss of Ferrari, decided to terminated the engagement of Alfa Romeo in Formula 1. Then there would be two possibilities: Will it Clean continued cooperation with Ferrari as a partner, which was the case before Alfa Romeo, or will work with manufacturers, which does not have this year no partner, that's it Renault. Tavares is about the group’s fourteen car brands stellantis said: “Each brand will be given the opportunity to develop. But at the same time, things need to change because we need to become more efficient."
