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.

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.

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Signing Bortoleto, who leads the Formula 2 standings with two rounds to go, gives Sauber a blend of youth and experience alongside the 37-year-old Hülkenberg. German automaker Audi is taking over Sauber, which will be rebranded as the Audi works team for 2026.

Brazilian driver Gabriel Bortoleto has reportedly been chosen as second driver for the Sauber Formula One team which will become an Audi works team from 2026. Multiple reports on Sunday spoke of an all but done deal that Bortoleto will take the place of veteran Valtteri Bottas and partner Nico Hülkenberg who arrives from Haas next year.

Sauber chief operating and technical officer Mattia Binotto said it had been a "straightforward decision with no doubts at all". The team chose to give Bortoleto his F1 debut because they had been "impressed by his career so far,

Gabriel Bortoleto “has been added to the group chat”, Sauber wrote on X as they confirmed the former McLaren junior driver as Nico Hulkenberg’s 2025 team-mate. Less than an hour after announcing both Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu would not continue with the team in F1 2025,

Sauber has signed Gabriel Bortoleto to partner Nico Hulkenberg in the 2025 Formula 1 season, the veteran and rookie effectively teaming up in the future Audi squad. Bortoleto had been courted by the Hinwil-based outfit for some time,