Mattia Binotto returns to F1 - he becomes Chief Operating and Chief Technical Officer at Sauber Motorsport AG, taking over a leadership position for the Audi project

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https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/press-releases/mattia-binotto-takes-over-a-leadership-position-for-audi-in-formula-1-16116
- To me the biggest news is that Andreas Seidl is leaving.
  
  Yeah, the whole reason he left McLaren was for Audi and now he's gone before seemingly doing anything.
  
  Oliver Hoffmann and Andreas Seidl are leaving? Either this is a sacking because of Saubers current performance or they will get send to another future Audi project, I guess..
  Binotto coming in is almost like Sauber getting closer to Ferrari once again
Michael Schmidt reports for AmuS that there was a power struggle between Hoffmann and Seidl which led the Audi leadership to release both of them instead of taking one or the other's side.
Both Schmidt and Piergiuseppe Donadoni report that Mike Krack could also join Audi in the near future as COO, if he agrees to the offer.
Donadoni further says that Binotto has already contacted people within Ferrari and made an offer to Enrico Gualtieri, Ferrari's Technical Director of the Power Unit.
Well this seems out of nowhere.

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