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Nico Hulkenberg will subordinate nan Sauber squad for nan 2025 play earlier their translator into nan mill Audi squad successful 2026.
The 36-year-old German is nan first driver to motion for Audi arsenic they build up to their debut play successful Formula 1. Their different premier target is Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz.
Andreas Seidl, main executive serviceman of Sauber and nan Audi F1 project, said: “With his speed, acquisition and committedness to teamwork, Nico will beryllium an important portion of nan translator of our team.”
Hulkenberg, who antecedently worked pinch Seidl erstwhile he won Le Mans for Porsche successful 2015, said: “The imaginable of competing for Audi is thing very special.
“When a German shaper enters F1 pinch specified determination, it is simply a unsocial opportunity. To correspond nan mill squad of specified a car marque pinch a powerfulness portion made successful Germany is simply a awesome honour for me.”
Hulkenberg's determination leaves a vacancy astatine nan United States-based Haas team, wherever he presently drives alongside Dane Kevin Magnussen.
A starring campaigner for that spot successful 2025 is Briton Oliver Bearman, who races successful Formula 2 and impressed astatine this year’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix erstwhile he substituted for Sainz, who was undergoing an cognition for appendicitis.
Bearman is simply a personnel of nan Ferrari driver academy and nan Italian team, who person adjacent links pinch Haas, are keen for him to move up into F1 adjacent season.
Hulkenberg made his debut successful F1 successful 2010 and has raced for nan Williams, Force India, Sauber and Renault teams.
He was dropped by Renault astatine nan extremity of 2019 and did a fistful of substitute appearances from 2020-22 for nan Racing Point/Aston Martin squad earlier returning to F1 full-time pinch Haas for 2023.
