Awoke to the news Friday morning that Sauber
F1 has signed Indy Cars "Symona-Symona," (Simona de Silvestro) who
I've had the pleasure of meeting in the flesh at Mother Speedway in 2012, when she was gamely soldiering on with the
woefully inadequate 'Loti lump!
Thus Sauber F1 has hired the 25yr old
"Swiss Missile" as an Affiliated member of its racing team with the
plans being to groom de Silvestro for a possible race seat in Formula 1 for 2015. As this is great
news for F1 in general, although it sounds like Sauber has written a new
chapter in its long history and perhaps the Sergey Sirotkin experiment is over?
Meanwhile, Grizzled Journo' Joe Saward has an
interesting take upon whether Simona will be the right woman to crack the Formula 1 barrier in 2015 - which would be
some twenty-plus years since the last female contested a Grand Prix...
