Sauber has refuted that its current lack of performance is related to its new owner Audi focusing most of its efforts on Formula 1's 2026 regulations.
The team is the only one yet to score points after nine races, being hamstrung by pitstop and other reliability issues at the start of the year and, just when it started getting its pitstops under control, the Swiss squad has now fallen back in the midfield's development race with what has been the slowest car on the grid in recent races.
