DECEMBER 27, 2002

Ress departs Sauber

Leo Ress, for many years the chief designer at Sauber, has left the Swiss team after 18 years.

Leo Ress, for many years the chief designer at Sauber, has left the Swiss team after 18 years. Ress, a BMW-trained engineer, designed the Sauber sportscars of the 1980s and early 1990s and then became the team's designer in F1 although lack of success led to his replacement a couple of years ago by another BMW engineer Willy Rampf. Since then Ress has been working as head of Sauber's research and development.