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2009/11/02 ZF Sachs Race Report, 01.11.09
New World Champion Jenson Button waved goodbye to the 2009 season with a fighting third place at the finale in Abu Dhabi. The Briton, whose Brawn-Mercedes is equipped with ZF Sachs Race Engineering dampers ...more
2009/10/26 ZF Sachs Race Report, 25.10.09
A second place at the season finale at the Hockenheimring in Baden-Wuerttemberg behind his only rival for the title, Gary Paffett (Mercedes), sufficed for Timo Scheider to repeat his DTM triumph from 2008. After Bernd Schneider (2000/2001), the German is only the second driver in DTM history ...more
2009/10/19 ZF Sachs Race Report, 18.10.09
Jenson Button and Brawn GP celebrated winning the title at the sixteenth and penultimate round of the Formula 1 World Championship in Brazil. Fifth position at Interlagos was sufficient for the Briton ...more
2009/10/12 ZF Sachs Race Report, 11.10.09
By finishing the ninth round of the DTM season at Dijon-Prenois in sixth place ZF Sachs partner Audi maintained its advantage in the fight for the drivers’ title. On the undulating circuit in Burgundy, France, Timo Scheider in his Audi A4 DTM, which uses a high-tech clutch from Schweinfurt ...more
2009/10/05 Toyota Motorsport GmbH and ZF Sachs Announce New Partnership
Toyota Motorsport GmbH today announced an agreement with ZF Sachs for the damping and clutch specialists to become an official supplier to the Panasonic Toyota Racing Formula 1 team from the start of the 2010 season. ...more
2009/10/05 ZF Sachs Race Report, 04.10.09
The Brawn team is merely half a point away from winning the constructors championship in the Formula 1 World Championship. Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button, who came in seventh and eighth place, respectively, at the Japanese Grand Prix ...more
2009/09/28 ZF Sachs Race Report, 27.09.09
Toyota driver Timo Glock equalled his best Formula 1 result to date after finishing second in the Singapore Grand Prix. The German, whose race car is equipped with a ZF Sachs Race Engineering clutch ...more
2009/09/21 ZF Sachs Race Report, 20.09.09
One-two-three clean sweep for ZF Sachs-Partner Audi, good position for Timo Scheider for remainder of the season in the title battle: The eighth DTM race of the season at Barcelona finished with a perfect result for the team from Ingolstadt. The Audi A4 DTM are equipped with high-tech ZF Sachs Race Engineering ...more
2009/09/15 ZF Sachs Race Report, 13.09.09
Brawn drivers Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button celebrated a one-two clean sweep in the Italian Grand Prix. Barrichello, whose Brawn-Mercedes is also equipped with ZF Sachs Race Engineering dampers ...more
2009/09/07 ZF Sachs Race Report, 06.09.09
By finishing as the runner-up behind winner Paul Di Resta in the Mercedes Audi driver Timo Scheider extended his lead of the standings at the DTM race at Brands Hatch. The 30-year-old whose A4 DTM is fitted with a clutch from ZF Sachs Race EngineeringBy finishing as the runner-up behind winner Paul Di Resta in the Mercedes Audi driver Timo Scheider extended his lead of the standings at the DTM race at Brands Hatch. The 30-year-old whose A4 DTM is fitted with a clutch from ZF Sachs Race Engineeri ...more
2009/09/01 ZF Sachs Race Report, 30.08.09
Victorious race weekend for ZF Sachs partner Ferrari at the Belgian GP: Ferrari driver Kimi Räikkönen, whose car is equipped with ZF Sachs Race Engineering dampers ...more
2009/08/24 ZF Sachs Race Report, 23.08.09
Victorious race weekend for ZF Sachs partner Brawn-Mercedes: Rubens Barrichello celebrated his first Formula 1 victory for almost five years at the European Grand Prix. Team mate Jenson Button finished in seventh place ...more
2009/08/17 ZF Sachs Race Report, 16.08.09
Audi driver Martin Tomczyk commandingly secured his first victory of the season at the Nürburgring in the sixth DTM round of the year. The Bavarian who had started to the race from the pole position relies on a clutch from ZF Sachs Race Engineering ...more
2009/08/03 ZF Sachs Race Report, 02.08.09
At the fifth race of the DTM season at Oschersleben Audi driver Timo Scheider whose A4 DTM is fitted with a clutch from ZF Sachs Race Engineering, clinched his first victory of the season. His brand colleagues Mattias Ekström and Martin Tomczyk ...more
2009/07/28 ZF Sachs Race Report, 26.07.09
Jenson Button remains Formula 1 World Championship leader after the Hungarian Grand Prix. Seventh place at the Hungaroring for the Briton, whose Brawn-Mercedes is equipped with ZF Sachs Race Engineering dampers, was sufficient ...more
2009/07/21 ZF Sachs Race Report, 19.07.09
The fourth race of the DTM season at Zandvoort ended with podium positions for Audi drivers Mattias Ekström and Oliver Jarvis. Ekström, like all Audi drivers, relies on a high-tech ZF Sachs Race Engineering clutch, was only beaten ...more
2009/07/13 ZF Sachs Race Report, 12.07.09
With a third-place finish at the German GP Felipe Massa whose Ferrari is equipped with dampers from ZF Sachs Race Engineering captured a podium for the first time this season. In the drivers’ championship the Brazilian improved by one position and now ranks in fifth place. The ninth race of the season was won by Mark Webber ...more
2009/06/29 ZF Sachs Race Report, 28.06.09
The third round of the DTM season at the Norisring will enter the history books as one of the most thrilling ever. The seven fastest drivers crossed the finish line within just 3.8 seconds. The beaming winner after 80 laps in front of 132,000 spectators (throughout the weekend) was Jamie Green ...more
2009/06/22 ZF Sachs Race Report, 21.06.09
With a third place Rubens Barrichello, whose Brawn-Mercedes machine is equipped with ZF Sachs Race Engineering dampers, reduced the gap slightly to his team mate Jenson Button in the championship standings. The Briton had won six of the previous eight races held so far this season ...more
2009/06/22 ZF Sachs Race Report 21.06.09
Formula 1: Rubens Barrichello on the podium at Silverstone ...more
2009/06/15 ZF Sachs Race Report, 14.06.09
Ford driver Mikko Hirvonen produced a commanding performance to win the Acropolis Rally. The Finn, whose Focus WRC is equipped with a ZF Sachs Race Engineering clutch, assumed the lead on the sixth of a total of 17 special stages and held it to the end of the seventh round of the world championship. ...more
2009/06/08 ZF Sachs Race Report, 07.06.09
There’s no stopping Jenson Button in the 2009 Formula 1 season. The Briton ...more
2009/06/02 ZF Sachs Race Report, 31.05.09
After missing a win at the season opener due to a puncture, Audi driver Mattias Ekström clinched his first podium position at the second race of the season at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz. The Swede whose Audi A4 DTM is equipped with a clutch from ZF Sachs Race Engineering ...more
2009/05/25 ZF Sachs Race Report, 24.05.09
Brawn GP continues to be the dominant power in Formula 1: The Briton Jenson Button clinched a commanding victory at the prestigious Monaco Grand Prix, ahead of his team-mate Rubens Barrichello ...more
2009/05/11 Race Report 9 May, 2009
Following a commanding performance during the Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona Jenson Button secured his fourth victory in the fifth race of 2009 season ...more
2009/04/27 ZF Sachs Race Report, 26.04.09
Third win at fourth race of the season for Brawn GP: Jenson Button, whose Brawn-Mercedes racer is equipped with ZF Sachs Race Engineering dampers, won the race in Bahrain and increased his championship lead in the process. Team mate Rubens Barrichello ...more
2009/04/20 Formula 1: Button defends lead in the standings at Shanghai
Thanks to his third place in the rain race of the Chinese Grand Prix Brawn-Mercedes driver Jenson Button continues heading the standings after the third round of the Formula 1 season. Team-mate Rubens Barrichello ...more
2009/04/06 Formula 1: Button wins aborted race in Malaysia
The winner of the 2009 season’s second Formula 1 race was Jenson Button. The Briton, whose Brawn-Mercedes is fitted with dampers from ZF Sachs Race Engineering, benefited from the Grand Prix race in Malaysia being stopped ...more
2009/03/30 Formula 1: One-two victory for ZF Sachs partner Brawn GP
The new team, Brawn GP, celebrated a sensational one-two victory at its Formula 1 debut race in Australia. Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello, whose Brawn-Mercedes racing cars are fitted with dampers by ZF Sachs Race Engineering ...more
2009/03/16 World Rally Championship: second position for Ford driver Mikko Hirvonen
In difficult conditions Mikko Hirvonen finished as the runner-up for ZF Sachs partner Ford at the Cyprus Rally. In his Ford Focus RS WRC fitted with a clutch from ZF Sachs Race Engineering Hirvonen was fighting ...more
2009/02/16 WRC: Ford drivers in places two and three
ZF Sachs's partner Ford finished the Norway Rally in places two and three. In extreme winter weather conditions with ice and high mounds of snow alongside ...more
2009/02/02 World Rally Championship: Podium place for Ford at season opener
The season opener of the World Rally Championship - the Rally Ireland - ended with a third-place finish clinched by Mikko Hirvonen for ZF Sachs partner Ford ...more
2009/01/19 Dakar Rally: Volkswagen makes history – and ZF Sachs has a part in it
The year of debuts: For the first time in its 30-year-history, the Dakar Rally was staged in South America, and for the first time a car with diesel power won. The South African-German duo Giniel de Villiers/Dirk von Zitzewitz in the Volkswagen Race Touareg powered ...more
2009/01/07 ZF Sachs Technology Feature, 02 Januar 09
History will be written at the Dakar Rally on 18 January 2009 – and ZF, ZF Sachs and also ZF Sachs Race Engineering are represented as title holders at the top of the field. For the first time eve ...more
