Are Stake F1 held back because of Audi takeover? 'Not completely accurate'

It has not been a great start to the season by the Stake F1 Team. They are yet to score a point in 2024, and early on they had severe problems with the pit stop equipment that hurt them even more. "I think it's a mistake to mix both things. I don't think that the preparation for the Audi works team is affecting the current two seasons and it must not. I think that we have weaknesses that we are trying to address," Bravi began in Barcelona.

Bravi believes that even if Audi are looking to recruit more people, those reinforments will join Stake F1 at the end of the day, so there is no such thing as multiple teams within one formation. "Andreas Seidel has been working since last January on improving the team in this transformation process, but the transformation process starts from the improvement of the current structure in finding the right people to reinforce our technical teams in every area I don't think that there are two separate tasks to be done, one for the works team and one for the current team, there are no two separate teams."

"There is one team that needs to be the foundation for the works team so Valtteri saying yesterday that we're taking one step back to take two steps forward is not wholly accurate," the Italian also disagreed with his driver, Bottas.

Why did Audi choose a complete takeover?

Bravi believes that Audi's influence is necessary to turn the team into a functioning works formation. "I don't want to say it's not accurate but of course, we are not where we should be also in terms of recruitment, in term of investment, and this is why Audi has decided to go for a full takeover of the Sauber group in order to push for the investment that is necessary to make the step towards the works team so I think that we are in a situation where we know exactly where is the light at the end of the tunnel but we are still in the tunnel," he concluded.