Nico Hulkenberg will be a 🌞major loss to Haa🍸s next year, they have been warned.

The 37-year-old F1 veteran will join Sauber next year ahea👍d of their 2026 evolution into Audi, pairing a German driver with Germany’s majo🦄r manufacturer.

It🐬 has the potential to become the most exciting switch in the F1 journey for Hulkenberg, which started 14 years ago and has included some negative moments.

Journalist Sam Power of Australia’s Channel 10 told the F1 Nation podcast that Hulkenberg should be praised: “It’s because we all somehow know he has a massive amo✱unt of talent, and we want to see it recognised.

“He’s done the hard yards. He’s gone out of the sport, he꧂ has deputised, found his way back in magically, he has survived and done it in incredible fashion.

“We knew the talent was there, it just needed the right 🍒set of circuওmstances.”

Hulkenberg’s F1 career appea🦄red to be over𒆙 when he left Renault in 2019.

But at Haas - despite them finishing bottom of the constructor♍s’ championship last year - he has demonstrated his expꦍertise.

In Singapore at the most recent grand prix, Hulkenberg scored points for the sixth timeℱ this se👍ason.

“This was the type of performance which will remind Ayaꦑo Komatsu about why he was so irritated to lose Nico for next year,” Lawrence Barretto commented in Si🐽ngapore.

“There was a delay in talking to Nico to so📖rt it out, then Audiಌ came in. I’m not saying it would have changed his mind.

“The Nico in this spec, since he came back to the sport, everybody at Haas knows that every time he goes on track he will get th�ꦗ�e best out of the package.

“That’s all thaꦅt any engineer wants. That’s why it’s such a hole that🐓 he will leave behind.

“He dropped back a few spot🌳s from where he started but he got the best out of the package. He defended from a Red Bull.  He did a phenomenal job.

“We’ve got all these rookies coming through but he’s one of♕ the veterans who deserve to beꦗ here.”