Audi want to pair 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nico Hulkenberg as earl🐎y as next season, with Sauber, reports from Germany indicate.

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

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

It me♑ans that Valtteri Bottas and Guanyu Zhou, both of whom are out of contract with Sauber at the end of this season, could lose their positions.

Convincin🥂g Sainz t⭕o put pen to paper is currently the big challenge.

Ferrari driver Sainz has clear links to Audi through hi𝓀s father, who won the D🍬akar Rally driving for the manufacturer.

Sainz is out of a job next year when Lewis Hamilton replaces him at Feཧrrari.

But his red-hot form - wi🐭nning last year’s Singapore Grand Prix and this season’s Australian Grand Prix after returning from appendix surgery - means he is in-demand.

Yet𝕴, a drive with either Mercedes or Red Bull has not come to fruition yet.

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

But nevertheless Audi “is pushing” for Sainz to pen a “long-▨term contract”.

They want Sainz in their car alಌongside German driver Hulkꦛenberg.

His a🌌greement to leave Haas for Audi “is not a problem”, the rep♕ort claims.

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

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

Hulkenberg drove ༺fꦚor Sauber for one season in 2013.

Sainz and Hulkenberg have also spent𝓰 a season as teammates already, for Renault in 2018.