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Van der Garde saga: I was too trusting – Kaltenborn

Monisha Kaltenborn has broken her silence on the Giedo van der Garde affair, admitting she made 'mistakes'. The storm surrounding Sauber's Indian-born Austrian boss and co-owner in Australia recently caused some reporters to question her ongoing suitability for the job. Now, in her first interview since the resolution of the saga with a reported EUR 15 million payment to Dutchman van der Garde, Kaltenborn admitted the explosion of the case in the Melbourne courts and paddock had been a 'shock'. 'When you sit in an Australian court and hear the word prison, that's a shock,' the 43-year-old, who in 2012 became the first female team boss in F1 history, told the Swiss newspaper Sonntagsblick....
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