(© Ben Johnston 2015)
The Sauber F1 Team have lost their
appeal against a court verdict that their former test and reserve driver Giedo
Van Der Garde should race for the team in Australia this weekend.
The Dutch driver took the Swiss
based outfit to court in Victoria and won his case on Wednesday with the outfit
immediately appealing the case. However in a statement read out in court on
Thursday the Supreme Court Of Victoria rejected the appeal saying
‘We did not consider this course
(the appeal) to be in the interests of justice.’
The ruling means that effectively
the Swiss based outfit now have three drivers for the two race seats available
and while they are legally obliged to run Van Der Garde in one of their cars
they face legal proceedings against them for failing to run either Felipe Nasr
and Marcus Ericsson as both drivers bring hefty sponsorship packages to the
team and by failing to comply the Sauber F1 Team would be breaching their
contract with both wither one of their drivers and their commercial partners.
© Ben Johnston 2015
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