Nico Hulkenberg will go away Haas for Sauber in 2025, the 2 groups confirmed on Friday.

Hulkenberg joined Haas in 2023 after three seasons with out a full-time experience and has been one of many grid’s in-form drivers this season.

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The German driver will be a part of Sauber on a multi-season deal one 12 months earlier than it turns into the Audi workforce in 2026.

“I would like to increase my because of Nico for his contributions to the workforce within the time that he is been right here with us – he is been an ideal workforce participant and somebody we very a lot take pleasure in working with, ” workforce principal Ayao Komatsu mentioned in a press release put out by Haas on Friday.

“His expertise and suggestions have proved invaluable to us in terns of enhancing our total efficiency – a indisputable fact that’s clearly evident in each his qualifying and race performances within the VF-24 this season.

“There’s much more racing to go this 12 months so we look ahead to persevering with to learn from his inputs all through the rest of the 2024 season.”

Sauber drivers Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu are anticipated to depart the workforce on the finish of the season. Sources mentioned Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz remains to be a robust candidate to affix him on the workforce subsequent season.

Haas is broadly anticipated to signal Ferrari reserve driver Oliver Bearman, who impressed as Sainz’s stand-in on the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, to interchange Hulkenberg.

It’s unclear whether or not the workforce will proceed with Hulkenberg’s teammate Kevin Magnussen.