No F1 team will end the season🍸 po𒐪int-less after the penultimate race of the year.

Sauber avoided the dreadful fate of ending the 2024 campaign wi💫th zero points at the F1 Qatar Grand Prix.

Guanyu Zhou finished eighth at the Lusail International Circuit, delivering hꩲis team their first points of the year.

Zhou and teammate Valtteri Bottas had prev﷽iously toiled away all season without a single reward for their effort.

Bottas has one more opportunity, 🔯at next weekend’s F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, to score a point and avoid ending the year point-less.

Bottas and Logan Sargeant, who William💞s𝓰 got rid of, currently have zero points.

Sauber improve in Qatar

The signs of improvement for Sauber were⭕ there on Friday and Saturday in Qatar.

🍨“We've been waiting for these improvements for a long, long time,”♏ Bottas said.

“So it's kind of ironic…”

Both Zhou and Bottas will not be on the F1 grid ne🍌xt season.

Sauber have instead signed Haas’ Nico Hulkenberg and will give Formula 2 driver Gabriel Borto🌞leto his big 𓃲break.

Bottas, the 10-time grand prix♈ winner🎃, could return to Mercedes as a reserve driver.

Zhou🍒’s future is less clear but he has been linked with a reserve role for Fer༺rari.