This is the culmination of a whirlwind few years for Bortoleto, who scarcely featured on the radar of most in the F1 paddock until he started winning ... to wooing Carlos Sainz for the other car. But Sauber had been gazumped by Williams, as Sainz bought ...

Brazilian driver Gabriel Bortoleto partners Nico Hulkenberg to complete Sauber's 2025 lineup. Valterri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu to part ways with the Zurich-based team.

Should Bortoleto achieve the F2 title, it would match Oscar Piastri’s back-to-back F3 and F2 titles in 2020 and 2021, the only driver so far to reach this milestone. He would also become the first F2 title holder to graduate to F1 since George Russell in 2018.