Audi want to pair 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Hulkenberg as early as next seꦉason, with Sauber, reports from Germany indicate.

The German powerhouse Audi will enter F1 in 2026 when th🍷e new regulations come into effect.

Until then they will run as ꦦSauber🍸, but Audi are pushing to bring together their ideal driver partnership for 2025, a year before their official entry, German-Swiss publication reports.

It means that Valtteri Bottas and Guanyu Zhou, both of whom are out of contract with Saub🐻er at the end of this season🐎, could lose their positions.

Convincing Sainz to put pen to paper is currently the big challeng🎀e.

Ferrari driver Sainz has clear links to Audi through his father, who won the Dakar Rally ꦺdriving for the manufacturer.

Sai𝓀nz is ou💟t of a job next year when Lewis Hamilton replaces him at Ferrari.

But his red-hot form - winning last y🉐ear’s Singapore Grand Prix and this sea𝓡son’s Australian Grand Prix after returning from appendix surgery - means he is in-demand.

Yet, a drive withꦍ either Mercedes or Red Bull has not come to 🉐fruition yet.

Sainz🍌 “wants to continue winning in 2025” and that isn’t something that Sauber can assure hi꧒m of, the report states.

But nevertheless A⭕udi “is pushing” for Sainz to pen a “long-term contract”.

They want Sainz in their c🦩ar alongside German dri🐎ver Hulkenberg.

His agreement to leave Haas for Audi “is not a probl🐓em”🔯, the report claims.

Hulkenberg, 36, has emerged as an under-the-radar talent this season after dragging Haas to two points finishes, and narrowly missing a third, from fo🦹ur grands prix.

He could now receive the opportunity to spearhead the entry of Audi, from his own ꧑home country of Germany.

Huಞlkenberg drove for Sauber for one season in 2013.

Sainz and Hulkenberg have also spent a season as teammates already, for Renault in 2𓆉0🍎18.