Sauber are reportedly a🌌lready considering fresh, future driver opti🏅ons.

They will head into 2025 with Nico Hulkenberg as their dri𓆉ver, and Valtteri Bottas hopes to stay alongside him๊.

The pair of F1 veterans mean Sauber have been lab🤪elled a “retirement home” by , a Swiss-German newspaper.

The newspaper also reports that Saube🗹r are considering who could replace Bottas, with a young driver at the top of their wish-list.

Gabriel Bortoleto is the driver named by Blick.

Bortoleto currently tops the Formula 2 standings.

But he has missed out on a 🧔promotion into F1 for 2025.

Bortoleto is a part of McLaren’s driver programme but could sign for S꧋auber next year, Blick ꦏreport.

That would enable him to sit in the background for one year before taking over a full-time race seat, the report claims🌠.

Sauber are the only F1 team to have ⛎𒁏failed to score a single point so far.

They will retain their current identity next year before becoming Audi - who have 𓄧big plans - in 2026 when the new rules begin.

Red Bull’s Jonathan Wheatley will become team principal, while ex-Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto has already joi𓂃ned Audi inꦉ a senior role.