Beat Zehnder is out at Audi F1 after 34 years with the Hinwil operation. The 60-year-old team manager stepped back from day-to-day operations last year as Sauber morphed into Audi's works project, but he'll exit entirely by December after the team restructured ahead of 2027. Zehnder joined Peter Sauber's sportscar program in 1988 as a wrench, followed the team into F1 in '93, and logged 601 consecutive grands prix as team manager and sporting director. He was there for every high and low — the BMW era's sole win with Robert Kubica in Canada 2008, the lean independent years, the constant survival battles. Audi called him a mentor to hundreds who passed through Hinwil. His departure closes the last link to Sauber's founding era. The Audi reboot is now fully detached from the Swiss privateer roots that got the team to the grid in the first place.
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