Giedo van der Garde wins Sauber court case

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Adam Cooper @adamcooperF1 · 29s29 seconds ago
ERI/NAS lawyer says his drivers could face legal proceedings if they drive and deprive VDG of his seat. Judges laugh at suggestion

Now, 4pm local time, Sauber must have submitted their drivers for the weekend.
I got a feeling on why they are trying to drag it out as long as they can.

 

[Smartbean]

wow, I guess now I know how horrible the judges are toward Eicsson and Nasr's lawyer are the judges actually bullying them?

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

wow, I guess now I know how horrible the judges are toward Eicsson and Nasr's lawyer are the judges actually bullying them?

Nope, it was more... well, ok. A tiny bit.

Adam Cooper @adamcooperF1 · 4m4 minutes ago
Judge tells ERI/NAS lawyer that would only happen "at the far outer reaches of the galaxy..."

Kate Jones @Kate_Jones7 · 2m2 minutes ago
#F1 Court: Judge says Sauber has put Nasr & Ericsson in 'very unsatisfactory position' by signing 3 drivers. One contract must be breached.

 

[Chris Jenkins]

The one that costs them the least money

 

[Yuri]

The one that costs them the least money

so Nasr is safe

 

[Chris Jenkins]

Probably for the best that Ericsson is dropped anyway.
Less money, less talent

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

However, Ericsson paid 75% of what he bring during the 2014 season, to help the team survive. I'm pretty sure that will lead to a hefty trial as well.

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

OUCH!


Adam Cooper @adamcooperF1 · 5m5 minutes ago
VDG lawyer says Monisha K wrote to Contract Recognition Board on 4/3/15 saying VDG contract had been terminated on 6/2/15...


Adam Cooper @adamcooperF1 · 4m4 minutes ago
In other words after VDG has won his arbitration case and team was told that he should drive...

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Kate Jones @Kate_Jones7 · 1m1 minute ago
Giedo van der Garde's lawyer is talking up his client: "He's young & handsome. He'd be an advertiser's dream." #F1 #Sauber

Is he that handsome? Hmmm, I don't agree.

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Ok, I'm not a big fan of "funny" pictures. But, I'll make an exception.

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Adam Cooper @adamcooperF1 · 3m3 minutes ago
VDG lawyer confirms there will be no legal action from his side against NAS or ERI if they drive and deprive VDG of his seat

Kate Jones @Kate_Jones7 · 2m2 minutes ago
Lawyer says Giedo van der Garde has trained all his life for opportunity to drive #F1 cars. That's why he pursued case rather than seek $.

Kate Jones @Kate_Jones7 · 1m1 minute ago
Giedo van der Garde's lawyer says with every moment that slips by, the chance of him driving this weekend becomes less possible.

Adam Cooper @adamcooperF1 · 58s58 seconds ago
That was a good move by VDG camp as ERI/NAS lawyer made a big point of saying that his drivers could be under legal threat

Sorry for spamming all the tweets I find interesting. I just hate going through twitter profiles to try to find them later on!

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Kate Jones @Kate_Jones7 · 35s36 seconds ago
#F1: Judge tells Sauber lawyer the team should be taking steps in preparation for van der Garde to race, in case it loses the appeal.

Something Sauber should've been ordered to on Monday!

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Adam Cooper @adamcooperF1 · 6m6 minutes ago
Judges tell @SauberF1Team "we are telling you to take steps" to enable VDG to participate, ie not do anything to prevent it happening

Adam Cooper @adamcooperF1 · 4m4 minutes ago
They haven't made their decision yet but in effect are acknowledging that time is moving on and @SauberF1Team is trying to hold things up

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

What a soap this is becoming

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

What a soap this is becoming

Indeed.


Adam Cooper @adamcooperF1 · now
Submissions now over, judges having a think about timing of their decision. They hinted at 0930am tomorrow which makes life tricky...

Sooo.... another day then.

 

[Mark Aalberts]

Of course Sauber is holding the case up as long as possible.

One thing is clear though, they will have to breach one of the 3 contracts and each one of them is going to have big consequences for the team. They breach VDG contract he most likely will posses the car for this race thus we see one Sauber car lining up on the grid this sunday. Which means they will most likely breach the contract with Bernie as well since they have to take part in the race with 2 cars I believe.

If they let VDG race obviously the team will be in trouble with either NAS or ERI who will take action against the team as well.

Do you guys even realize that also Sutil was having a contract to race for 2015,... he just decided to not take action against the team though. No idea if he still has a legal contract though I think he was release from it, but basically he was in the same boat as VDG

I'm surprised they didn't sacked MK yet,..... I really wonder what Peter Sauber thinks about this all, after all those years this is not something you would expect from his team.

 

[Smartbean]

Adam Cooper @adamcooperF1 · 45s45 seconds ago
Judges will hand down their decision at 1630 today...

EDIT: Which will be 5:30am GMT

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Do you guys even realize that also Sutil was having a contract to race for 2015,... he just decided to not take action against the team though. No idea if he still is though, but basically he was in the same boat as VDG

I'm surprised they didn't sacked MK yet,...

Sutil is also suing! Just for money.

MK have 33% of the shares.

Adam Cooper @adamcooperF1 · 45s45 seconds ago
Judges will hand down their decision at 1630 today...

4hrs15min then. And 30min after the initial deadline.

 

[Smartbean]

Sutil is also suing! Just for money.

Aye, he is. Which in light of VDG's win at the Swiss arbitration committee and court ruling has some decent ground of succeeding to.

MK have 33% of the shares.

Aye, will be a tough job to get her (completely) out of the picture. Though owning shares alone don't mean you have to be the managing CEO on a day to day basis like she has been so far though.

4hrs15min then. And 30min after the initial deadline.

Deadline doesn't matter that much, as VDG's lawyer stated, the FIA rules for swapping, substituting and replacing drivers allow for changes even after that deadline.

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

And in 5 hours, the Team Principal Press Conference is starting.
Monisha is supposed to be there!