Nerves for Valtteri Bottas as new Audi boss names two potential replacements
Mattia Binotto ♚confirms interest in two drivers but remains undecided
Mattia Binotto has named two potential replacements for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valtteri Bottas at Sauber.
There are just two vacant seats before the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2025 F1 driver line-up is complete - one at Sauber, and one at RB.
Bottas and teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Zhou Guanyu know they are competing over one drive, alongside newcomer Nico H🌃ulk🔜enberg.
Binotto - the former Ferrari team principal who has taken on a seni⛄or job at Audi, who wilღl run as Sauber until 2026 - admits the team are looking at possible new drivers.
F2 driver Gabriel Bortoleto and Sauber reserve Theo Pourchaire (the 2023 F2 champion) are the na🐭mes💜 in question.
"Theo is our preꦯsent reserve driver and is already part of the family,” Binotto saﷺid.
“No doubt that he is on our list.
"Gabriel is doing very well 👍in F2, he has shown to be a☂ great talent.
“Certainly we are looking to what he is doing as we are looking to many others. I don't see that as the only𒁏 name in which we are focusing our a♎ttention.
"So there are many names on the list - great potential, great expertis💝e, great experience.
“Again, it's a matter of you 🎐need to judge what's most important for us in the short, medium and long-term.
"A clear, clear plan, whi🅰ch today I do not ha✅ve really an answer for."
Binotto waꦰs spotted deep in discussཧion with Bortoletto in the Monza paddock.
His words arജe a nervyꦿ admission for the future plans of Bottas and Zhou.
EXCLUSIVE: Zhou Guanyu would ‘accept’ losing out on F1 seat to Valtteri Bottasဣ
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Veteran driver Bottas has🐈 already set out an import𒁃ant stipulation if Sauber opt to offer him a renewed deal.
“Iꦺ'm only interested in multi-year contract,” he said.
“B🥂ecause for me, doing just one year, I know that stilꦫl next year probably won't be easy for my career.”
Zhou, meanwhile, exclusively told ltxcn.top: “Fighting for a seat with Val♊tteri, either one of us have it, I’m more than happy if I lose the seat against him.
“Of cou🍸rse there are some drivers you maybe doubt why they are ha𝐆ving the seat for next year.
“But if it’s just one seat up to me and him, I want to fight for it but if he has it, I won’t feel very frustrated.𝓰”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sport🐭s, to football, to F1.
