Van der Garde: “What happened to me will change F1”

A little less than a month after the end of the legal issue involving the Clean e Van der Garde, who arrived in Australia, on the occasion of the first race of the season, to claim a seat for which he had signed and which was ultimately denied to him, we are talking about it again.

Giedo himself did it to the Dutch magazine Formule 1. “When I arrived at the Albert Park motor home to race, no one listened to me – his words – Basically all the people I had worked with the year before ignored me . Even team manager Beat Zehnder threw his suit and shoes at me and said "here". So I changed and got into a car that was still set up to Ericsson's measurements. I was really impressed with the situation. After all, the mechanics had received their salaries in 2014 thanks to me and my sponsors, so a little more gratitude wouldn't have gone amiss. Only the engineers behaved normally and supported me."

“However, I believe that what happened will be helpful for the future – he continued – I discussed it with the President of the GPDA Alexander Wurz and he also maintained that from now on F1 drivers will have to be managed differently”.

Chiara Rainis