Audi has announced that the Qatari Investment Authority acquired a significant minority stake in Sauber Holding AG, the future factory team of Audi. QIA will enter the Formula 1 project as a long-term investor and partner. The German manufacturer officially joins in 2026, taking over the Sauber F1 Team. It will use the facility in…
Valtteri Bottas confirms he is in talks with Mercedes F1 about taking on a reserve driver role for next season. The Finnish driver has his sights set on a return to the Formula 1 grid in 2026, stating he has turned down an IndyCar offer to focus on this goal. Sauber’s decision to sign rookie…
Sauber’s Zhou Guanyu will start Saturday’s Las Vegas GP from P13, after an unexpectedly strong performance during Friday’s late-night qualifying session. While speaking with the media after Friday’s late-night qualifying session, the Sauber driver described his performance as unexpected and stated that the team had made “good progress” to achieve his P13 start despite the…
Ahead of the 2024 F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix, Sauber’s Zhou Guanyu spoke about his team’s decision to drop both him and his teammate, Valtteri Bottas, from their 2025 line-up, as well as the possibility of joining Ferrari in the future as a reserve driver. Zhou, whose F1 future has been at risk since the…
Sauber F1 driver Valtteri Bottas spoke in the press conference on Wednesday after the news broke that he and fellow driver Zhou Guanyu would be leaving at the end of the season. 50-50 chance of staying The Finn stated that he got ‘a bit unlucky’ and that his future with the team ‘wasn’t meant to…
Gabriel Bortoleto will be joining the 2025 grid alongside his new teammate, Nico Hulkenburg in Sauber. He is the third confirmed rookie on the grid as he joins the line-up that currently consists of Jack Doohan and Kimi Antonelli. They have secured their 2025 seats with Sauber, Alpine and Mercedes respectively. Championship leader Bortoleto joined…
After several months of speculation, on Wednesday, Audi and Sauber Motorsport AG confirmed that they had signed 20-year-old Gabriel Bortoleto on a multi-year deal which will see the Brazilian driver, who currently leads the 2024 FIA Formula 2 Drivers’ Championship standings, partnering with Nico Hülkenberg when they transition to the Audi F1 factory team. The…
In spite of failing to score points yet again, Sauber had a relatively strong weekend in Mexico City as Valtteri Bottas made it to the second segment of qualifying for the first time since the Belgian Grand Prix. Starting from P15 on the grid, the Finn took the chequered flag in fourteenth place. Meanwhile, after…
Despite his disappointment with having been unable to improve his performance after a premature end to Saturday’s second qualifying session, Sauber’s Valtteri Bottas believes that he has “got to be happy” with his performance, despite qualifying P15 for Sunday’s race. While speaking with the media after the Mexico Grand Prix qualifying session, Bottas, whose last…
During FP1 on friday, alongside 4 other rookies, Robert Shwartzman sat in for Zhou Guanyu at Sauber for the session. This would be the second time this year he has driven in FP1 for Sauber, following the session he did back in Zandvoort for the Dutch Grand Prix. The young driver completed 18 laps during…
