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28
Formula 1
Start.
When the 2006 racing season opens, a racing team managed by BMW will for the first time
go to the start in the Formula 1 World Championship. The BMW Group has been involved
in Formula 1 racing as engine partner to a racing stall for six years. These years provided
valuable experience, but they also showed that Formula 1 races cannot be won with just
a good engine. With the launch of the BMW Sauber F1Team, the BMW Group can now
optimise all the success factors itself. First of all, however, the 2006 season will be a phase
of development, cohesion and experience gathering for the BMW Sauber F1Team.
Preparations for the new season are in full swing: more than 100 new employees are
being hired at the location in Hinwil, Switzerland, the wind tunnel is being switched from
one- to three-shift operation, the development and production facilities are being extended
and an independent test team is being formed.The division of labour has been established:
while the vehicles are built and the racing assignments fixed in the Zurich Oberland, the
complete drive shaft and electronic systems are being developed, tested and produced in
Munich. Thus, the Formula 1 commitment acts as a high-tech laboratory and technology
accelerator for the entire Company. For example, the Formula1 engineers in Munich work
only a few hundred metres away from the BMW Group’s Research and Innovation Centre
(FIZ), so development engineers working on Formula 1 and series production engines can,
and frequently do, compare notes.
With Nick Heidfeld (record to date: two second-place finishes, one pole position) and
Jacques Villeneuve (eleven Grand Prix victories,13 pole positions), the new team has two
ambitious and experienced racing drivers in the cockpit. Together, these two Swiss resi-
dents have gained experience in 250 Grand Prix races. The third driver for the free practice
and test drives is Robert Kubica, a highly promising young pilot from Poland.
The BMW Group’s Formula 1 history goes back to the year 1952 and has so far included
200 starts,19 Grand Prix wins and 32 pole positions. In 1983, Nelson Piquet won the Drivers
World Championship; the greatest success – for the time being.