Monisha Kaltenborn says she has not considered resigning amid the ongoing saga regarding Giedo van der Garde’s seat at Sauber.
Van der Garde claims he has a valid contract to race for Sauber, with the Supreme Court of Victoria upholding the decision of a Swiss court which says he should drive this season. A Sauber appeal was rejected on Thursday before the team faced a contempt of court hearing on Friday, with the cars failing to run in FP1 as proceedings continued.
The hearing is set to continue on Saturday morning with van der Garde’s lawyers having called for Kaltenborn to be imprisoned, and the team principal admits the situation has had a major affect on Sauber.
"It's definitely had a very negative impact on the team because the situation was, for a while, unclear,” Kaltenborn said. “We now have certain actions taken against the team, and we are acting accordingly."
And Kaltenborn insists the situation has not arisen due to the team not thinking thoroughly about its actions in the past.
"We have a very clear view of what we did. We took action after thinking about it for a while. For us that was very clear, but the outcome is different, and that's all I can say to you."
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