Because it continues to morph into Audi F1, Stake is bolstering its administration crew with the appointment of Stefan Strahnz, who joins from Mercedes, to the newly created place of Programme Director.
Becoming a member of on October 1st, 2024, Strahnz will report on to CEO, Andreas Seidl, bringing a wealth of operational and organisational growth and management expertise because the crew dramatically ramps up its development within the run-up to Audi’s entry into the game in 2026.
Strahnz brings to the desk greater than 20 years’ expertise in F1, through which he labored for Toyota, BAR, Renault and Lotus, and loved an unbelievable degree of success as a part of the Mercedes crew, for which he labored for almost 13 years.
On this time, he held varied engineering roles, earlier than shifting into technical administration and management positions, finally transitioning to operational and organisational technique growth and implementation.
In these roles, Strahnz specialised in creating, simplifying and driving the supply of advanced and time-critical programmes, buying essential expertise that might be put to good use as Sauber undergoes its transformation into the Audi manufacturing facility crew.
“I’m delighted to welcome Stefan to the crew,” stated Andreas Seidl, “and I’m positive that he’ll convey an unbelievable quantity of expertise from his earlier roles, through which he gained a number of races and championships, to additional complement and strengthen our management crew.
“Along with his distinctive expertise, Stefan will play an important function in driving the crew’s total effectiveness and put together us on our journey to full finance regulation optimisation as we turn out to be the Audi F1 manufacturing facility crew. Working carefully with myself, the administration crew and all our increasing technical, operational and finance departments, Stefan’s essential mission is to ship absolutely streamlined and optimised F1 automotive programmes, from idea by to trace introduction.”
“I’m immensely proud and excited to affix the proficient individuals at Sauber Motorsport on our thrilling journey to turn out to be the Audi F1 manufacturing facility crew in 2026,” added Strahnz. “I’ve skilled an identical journey in my earlier roles, and I might be making use of all my learnings and power into this new and difficult programme to develop the required instruments, processes and tradition for sustainable long-term on- and off-track success.
“It’s a true privilege to affix such an iconic model as Audi with all its earlier know-how and motorsport achievements. I look ahead to taking a management function in our formidable targets to win championships in F1.”
