The all new car appears to be the most radical looking yet, ahead of the all-new McLaren, Ferrari, and Lotus machines that have been revealed over previous days.
The inclusion of noticeably small sidepods is the cars most striking feature, with the space reserved by the tiny-pods being taken up by large vanes, in an attempt to channel air towards to the vital-area of the exhaust outlets and diffuser at the rear of the C32.
A pleasing feature of the new car is the absence of the pig-ugly conventional stepped-nose, with so-called 'modesty fairings' protruding past the the step itself, much like as seen on the Red Bull RB8 from yesteryear.
Not-so-radical is the car's new-for-2013 colour scheme, with a predominant shade of grey sprawled across the carbon-fibre in twine with lashes of white and red, the colours most synonymous with the Hinwil-based team.
With an all-new driver line-up in Nico Hulkenberg and Esteban Gutierrez, hopes are high for Sauber, as new team principal Monisha Kaltenborn states: "The aim is very clear and simple: we want to continue to improve ourselves."
With a radical looking design, and an upwards trend of performance on the their CV over previous seasons, 2013 looks to be a potentially jubilant season, with nothing short of regular top five performances and occasional wins, a widely held expectation.
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