Podium rewards for Sauber Junior Team at Hockenheim

The Sauber Junior Team claimed a podium finish in each race during an eventful penultimate round of the ADAC Formula 4 Championship at Hockenheim this weekend.

The development programme’s quartet of drivers, competing as part of the ‘US Racing-CHRS’ squad in F4, arrived at the German Grand Prix venue buoyed by their performance at the previous Nürburgring round, where they took a hat-trick of victories and scored other strong results.

But Théo Pourchaire, Arthur Leclerc, Roman Staněk and Alessandro Ghiretti, all had a hectic weekend at Hockenheim.

Saturday’s Race 1 was led away by pole-sitter Théo, but the Frenchman’s charge ended when an unfortunate clash with Arthur caused terminal damage to his car. Arthur picked up...