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Alfa Romeo returns to Formula 1 with Sauber Nov 29th 2017, 11:40 Alfa Romeo is joining Sauber for 2018 Alfa Romeo and Sauber F1 Team will share technical information in new deal Alfa Romeo is to return to Formula 1 in 2018 as title sponsor of the Sauber F1 Team – marking the brand's first appearance in the sport since 1988. The Italian brand confirmed its new relationship would enable an exchange of engineering information between the two parties, "providing new opportunities for the two organisations within Formula One and beyond". The newly named Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team will retain its existing deal with Ferrari to use its engines, taking to grid next year with the latest 2018 powertrain. Alfa Romeo's role is labelled as one that will focus on sharing engineering know-how. Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Alfa Romeo parent company Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, said it lets "Alfa Romeo engineers and technicians - who have already demonstrated their capabilities with the newly launched models, Giulia and Stelvio - have the opportunity to make that experience available to the Sauber F1 Team". Sauber Holding chairman Pascal Picci explained that "working closely with a car manufacturer is a great opportunity for the Sauber Group to further develop its technology and engineering projects". Sauber's team finished last in the 2017 F1 Constructors' Championship standings, with just five points. Its drivers, Pascal Wehrlein, Marcus Ericsson and Antonio Giovinazzi, finished 17th, 20th and 22nd respectively in the drivers' standings. Ferrari junior drivers Giovinazzi and Charles Leclerc are widely rumoured to be the team's drivers for 2018. Alfa Romeo's deal mimics a process used by Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing. Aston Martin will become the team's title sponsor in 2018, enhancing a technical relationship that began in 2016 and has created the Aston Martin Valkyrie hypercar. The new Alfa Romeo and Sauber deal ends a 30-year-long hiatus for Alfa Romeo's F1 activities. It competed as both a constructor and engine supplier during a stint that started back in 1950. It won the inaugural F1 championship with Italian Nino Farina and returned to secure the second in 1951 with Juan Manuel Fangio. The brand was an engine supplier in the 1970s, and one of the best-remembered F1 cars to use its power, in this case a flat-12, was the Gordon Murray-designed Brabham BT46 (pictured above). It eventually earned the nickname 'fan car' because of its innovative ground-effect aerodynamics. Alfa Romeo unsuccessfully competed as a works entry between 1979 and 1985. More content:

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