Sauber rookie Sergio Perez will have a brand new C30 at his disposal in China after his original car was heavily damaged in Malaysia.<\/p>\n
There is only a few days between the Sepang race and opening practice this Friday in Shanghai, but Mexican Perez’s ‘Chassis 01’ is currently en route from Kuala Lumpur to Hinwil.<\/p>\n
He had to retire in Malaysia when heavy ballast – reportedly weighing 6 kilograms – fell off Sebastien Buemi’s Toro Rosso and struck the similarly Ferrari-powered Sauber.<\/p>\n
“The chassis looks pretty bad,” confirmed team manager Beat Zehnder to Blick newspaper.\u00a0 “So far we’ve only been unable to repair one chassis — it was Frenzten’s after he crashed in Monaco in 1994!” he revealed.<\/p>\n
Zehnder said the loose ballast from Buemi’s car was like “a bomb” hitting the C30, which raises obvious safety implications.\u00a0 “We have informed the FIA,” he said.<\/p>\n
He told Auto Motor und Sport: “Now there’s a hole in the chassis.\u00a0 For China, Sergio will have a new one.”<\/p>\n
The chassis write-off and Melbourne disqualification aside, the C30 has stunned the F1 community with its kindness to the Pirelli tyres.<\/p>\n
Perez was the only runner to do a one-stopper in Australia, while Kamui Kobayashi drove through the harsher degradation at Sepang last Sunday with just two stops.<\/p>\n
“The car seems to be gentle on the tyres.\u00a0 I’m sure it can bring us many good results,” enthused Zehnder.<\/p>\n
The C30 will have a Red Bull-style exhaust fitted for May’s Turkish grand prix, while Williams is set to test a similar innovation this weekend in China.<\/p>\n
Blick said the laptime advantage for Sauber is estimated at five tenths per lap.<\/p>\n
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