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Otmar Szafnauer: “When Force India went into administration, my role was to keep the team together”

Otmar Szafnauer: “When Force India went into administration, my role was to keep the team together”

F1 Beyond The Grid vor 7 Jahren

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Though he's been in F1 a long time, you may not have been overly
familiar with Otmar Szafnauer before this year. As COO of Force
India, the American played a key role in turning them into one of
the best pound for pound teams on the grid. But when driver
Sergio Perez pulled the trigger and sent the Silverstone squad
into administration in mid-2018, Szafnauer found himself on a
course that ultimately led to him becoming Team Principal of a
new entity: Racing Point.

On this week’s episode of Beyond The Grid, presented by Bose,
Szafnauer talks Tom through his ‘most stressful’ of seasons,
discusses the potential impact of fresh funding into the team,
his hopes for 2019, and his fascinating background in the sport…