Alongside Hulkenberg’s expertise, Sauber can even name upon the thrilling promise of Brazilian Bortoleto. The 20-year-old has quite the list of accolades to his name already, having received the 2024 Components 2 championship and the 2023 Components 3 championship earlier than that.
Final season’s heroics meant he turned simply the fourth champion within the F2 period to win the F2 and F3 titles in successive years – following present F1 stars Charles Leclerc, George Russell and Oscar Piastri. That’s not a nasty checklist of drivers to already be related to.
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Final season
Sauber’s 2024 season was, in a phrase, difficult. Different comparable descriptions have additionally been supplied – former driver Zhou referred to as it “draining” whereas Chief Working and Chief Technical Officer Mattia Binotto had mentioned the workforce was in “survival mode”.
Whereas the squad did no less than keep away from a point-less marketing campaign due to Zhou’s 4 factors within the penultimate race of the 12 months, 2024 actually received’t reside lengthy within the reminiscence for these on the workforce as they completed lifeless final within the Constructors’ Championship.
Certainly, a lot of the information round Sauber final 12 months was dominated by personnel modifications with the aforementioned Binotto – beforehand Ferrari Workforce Principal from 2019-2022 – becoming a member of in August, following on from the exits of former CEO Andreas Seidl and Audi govt Oliver Hoffmann.
It was additionally introduced that now former Pink Bull Sporting Director Jonathan Wheatley will grow to be Workforce Principal, with a begin date but to be confirmed.
