No F1 team will end the season point-less after the penu🍌ltimate race of the year.

Sauber avoided the d🤡readful fate of ending the 2024 campaign wit🅠h zero points at the F1 Qatar Grand Prix.

Guanyu Zhou finished eig💫hth at the Lusail Int꧒ernational Circuit, delivering his team their first points of the year.

Zhou an𓄧d teamm♓ate Valtteri Bottas had previously toiled away all season without a single reward for their effort.

Bottas has one more opportunity, at next weekend’s F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, to score a point and avoid e༒nding the year point-less.

Bottas and Lꦿogan Sargeant, who Williams got rid of, curre♑ntly have zero points.

Sauber improve in Qatar

The signs of improvement for Sauber were there on Friday and Satur♏day in Qatar.

“We've bไeen waiting for these improvements for a🦩 long, long time,” Bottas said.

“So it's kind of ironic…”

Both Zhou🍨 and Bottas will not be on the F1 grid next season.

Sauber hav▨e instead signed Haas’ Nico Hulkenberg and will give Formula 2 driver Gabriel Bort🐻oleto his big break.

Bottas, the 10-time grand prix winner,🍌 could return to Mercedes as aꦫ reserve driver.

Zhou’s future is less cl🅠ear but he has been linked with a reserve r✤ole for Ferrari.