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Sauber gets go-ahead as 13th F1 team
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December 5, 2009, Saturday
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SWISS-BASED Sauber will take departed Toyota's place as Formula One's 13th team next season, the governing International Automobile Federation said in a statement.
"The FIA has written to inform BMW Sauber AG that their application for an entry in the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship has been successful," the FIA said on Thursday, referring to the team by its former name.
"Subject to their signing the Concorde Agreement (the commercial agreement that binds teams to the series until 2012), BMW Sauber will be awarded the 13th entry in the Championship, taking the place of the departing Toyota team."
Last week, BMW handed back control to founder Peter Sauber.
The team had by then already lost its place on the grid to Malaysian-backed newcomers Lotus F1, with the FIA saying Sauber was the official reserve should any other team decide to withdraw.
That vacancy was provided by the Toyota team, which declared after the final race of the year in Abu Dhabi that it was pulling out.
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