Mick Schumacher at Audi for F1 2026? ‘Too early to talk about drivers’
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Audi confirmed last week that Sauber - currently running under the Alfa Romeo name - wou♋ld become their works team in 2026.
The news came as no surprise after 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Audi announced their plans to become an F💜1 enཧgine supplier earlier this year.
With Audi likely wanting a German driver in 2026, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Mick Schumacher would potentially be an option.
Schumacher is currently driving for Haas, but his immediate future is under threat, with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Hulkenberg rumoured to be the favourite to partner 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Kevin Magnussen for F1 2023.
Speaking at last weekend’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 Mexico City Grand Prix, Vasseur admitted it was too soon to be discussing Audi’s potential driver liꦛne-up.
“As you said, it’s a bﷺit ambitious to speak abo❀ut drivers for 2026,” he explained.
“We have the academy, we are trying to develop young ones and so but it will be in the middle because♛ if you are speaking ♏about young kids often in go-kart today, it will be more for 2030 or 2032.
“For sure, we have Valtteri [Bottas] on board, we have Zhℱou [Guanyu] on board , we have Theo [Pourchaire] in the pipeline. But we will have time to discuss about this and I’m ✤not sure that you have so many drivers on the grid with contract after 2026.”
In terms of team nam༒e, the Sauber outfit will no longer be known as Al♎fa Romeo after 2023 with their title sponsorship coming to an end.
With ཧtwo more years without Audi in 2024 and 2025, Vasseu𒅌r admitted they might have a new title sponsor in the intervening years.
“You have to disassociate the name of the team, which could be the✱ title sponsor, and the name of the company,” he added.
“The name of the company will stay Sauber. The name of the chassis will stay Sauber, but we could have🍰 a title sponsor coming in.”
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