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Van der Garde: Sauber contract saga should "change F1"

Giedo van der Garde has spoken out about pressing his claim against Sauber in Melbourne, and says the situation should never be allowed to happen again. The Swiss team settled its dispute with the Dutch driver with a reportedly multi-million euro payment, but until then van der Garde argued that his valid 2015 race contract should be honoured by the team. A Melbourne judge ordered that he be granted access to the Sauber garage at Albert Park for a seat fitting, and the 29-year-old now admits: "It felt very strange. "I should have gone to the team and said 'Hello, I'm here to drive'," van der Garde told the Dutch magazine Formule 1. "But then I went to the motorhome and...
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