Welcome to the grid, Gabriel Bortoleto. After announcing back in the sprint that veteran driver Nico Hülkenberg would move to the team for the 2025 season, a year before Sauber becomes the Audi F1 works operation, the team debated for months who would get ...

The Sauber F1 team has announced that F2 championship leader Gabriel Bortoleto will join Nico Hulkenberg as the team's driver lineup for 2025, taking over from

Formula One will have a full-time Brazilian driver for the first time since 2017 after Sauber announced 20-year-old Gabriel Bortoleto on Wednesday to complete the future Audi team's line-up for 2025 and 2026.

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.

Sauber has signed 20-year-old Brazilian driver Gabriel Bortoleto to make his debut in Formula 1 next year as Nico Hülkenberg's teammate. The decision means that Sauber's current drivers Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu are without an F1 seat for 2025.

Sauber’s hire of Bortoleto means that a fifth of Formula 1’s grid in 2025 will be full-time rookies, as he joins Mercedes’ Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Haas’ Ollie Bearman—who has contested three grands prix this year as a stand-in—and Alpine’s Jack Doohan on the list of newbies.