Update Giedo van der Garde will not play Sunday at the Grand Prix of Australia. The Dutch driver has today let Facebook know out of respect for the sport to relinquish his seat at Sauber for the opening race of the season in Formula 1. Van der Garde and Sauber found instead a settlement.
© getty. ,, Out of respect for the interests of motor sport and Formula 1 in particular, I decided to take my right to race in the Grand Prix in Melbourne to give up, ” Van der Garde. ,, This has been a difficult decision for me, but I respect the interests of motorsport federation FIA, the Sauber racing team and its drivers Felipe Nasr and Marcus Ericsson. ”
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The 29-year old driver and Sauber had a conflict with the position of the Dutch in the squad. The driver said contractually entitled to one of the two seats as a race driver for this season. In it, he was twice equal of the judges in Australia, after a Swiss tribunal earlier also spoke in his favor. Sauber was of the opinion that the Van der Garde to nothing mandatory.
The court ruled Friday in Melbourne with a third seat that Van der Garde and Sauber first had mutually come to a solution to the dispute. If the parties do not succeed, then the Supreme Court Saturday 10:00 am (AEST) again make a statement. That did not happen, because Van der Garde and Sauber found a settlement.
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The precise content of the settlement was not disclosed. According to Van der Garde is still under discussion. ,, My management will start next week with Sauber talk further to find a commonly acceptable solution to the current situation, ” wrote Van der Garde.
,, I am sure that there is a solution. If that happens, then I’ll leave that to know. ” Van der Garde does not exclude that in the future it will reclaim the seat where he is entitled according to the judges. The second race of this season is two weeks in Malaysia.
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