Monisha Kaltenborn says Sauber have a good chance of overtaking Force India

Monisha Kaltenborn reckons Sauber have "good chances" to overhaul Force India and take sixth place in the Constructors' Championship in the season's remaining races.

The 22-year-old Mexican has been knocking on the door of a points finish for a couple of races, having qualified in the top ten in Singapore and Korea. According to Sauber's Head of Track Engineering Tom McCullough, Gutierrez has not only benefitted from their recent improvement but his own gains have also helped Hulkenberg, who qualified seventh in Japan. "With Esteban improving, it starts to push the team. Because if your lead driver has seven-tenths on your number two driver all the time, you always think he's done a good job. But take an example: in Q2, Nico looked at Esteban's data in Spoon Curve because Esteban was a tenth quicker," McCullough explained. "So he went out and said in the debrief, 'I replicated my lap everywhere plus I used that little bit from Esteban and that's why I went faster'. That pushes a team as well and it's important. "We started with a rookie and an experienced driver. The rookie has developed and improved, therefore it lifts the level of the team as well."