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Sauber has officially announced its 2025 F1 driver lineup, as both Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu will be leaving the team and young Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto joins Nico Hulkenberg. The driver lineup for the Swiss-based team has been a bone of contention for a while now, as there has been a lack of clarity when it came to the direction that the team was going to take.
When it came to drivers, the team has been talking to quite a few and a lot of them have been linked with this project. Earlier it was Carlos Sainz whose father has associations with Audi itself. Then it was drivers like Esteban Ocon who opted not to go to the team and recently it was the Argentinian Franco Colapinto.
While Hulkenberg was one name that was signed on instantly by the team early in the season, the difficulty when it comes to filling the second seat has been evident for a while. Bortoleto will be the second driver. The highly-rated Brazilian is leading the F2 championship in his rookie season after winning the F3 title in his rookie year.
