F1 | Sauber, Vasseur: “Raikkonen? We reached the agreement in less than four days"
"I and Kimi like to get to the point straight away," said the Hinwil team principal
di Piero Ladisa25 September 2018
In an interview given to the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Frederic Vasseur has reconstructed the stages that led to the transfer, or rather return, of Kimi Raikkonen at the Sauber court.
"Ferrari did not have the final say in this step – underlined the Hinwil team principal -. When Kimi learned that he would no longer be staying with them, he started talking to us. We spoke on the phone and later met. Kimi and I like to get straight to the point: we signed the agreement in less than four days".
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