(GMM) Peter Sauber has denied former team racer Norberto Fontana’s claim this week that he was ordered by Ferrari to block Jacques Villeneuve at the 1997 championship finale at Jerez.
Argentine Fontana said: ”Jean Todt came to my motor home and said that we must block Villeneuve if he comes up behind me.
”It was a strict order.”
Sauber, since bought and renamed by BMW, was powered by customer Ferrari engines until 2005.
But former team principal Peter Sauber told Swiss newspaper Blick: ”In the nine years that we cooperated, Ferrari never expressed the desire that we should obstruct an opponent of (Michael) Schumacher on the track.”
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