McLaren CEO Zak Brown has seemingly given Audi the green light to sign Gabriel Bortoleto for the 2025 F1 season.

Audi are still undecided on which driver will partner 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nico Hulkenberg for next year.

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Williams boss James Vowles has been open in the fact that he’d love to see Colapintoꩵ join Sau💞ber for next year.

Bortoleto, who sits top of the F2 standings currentlyജ, is part of the McLaren junior prog💃ramme.

Speaking in the FIA press conference on Friday, Brown was asked about Bortoleto’s pr🦋ospects of𓃲 making it into F1.

“Yeah, he's a great racing driver,” Brown said. “Right now, our ❀priority is to help them win the Formula 2 ch▨ampionship.

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“We're very hꦑappy, obviously, with our two Grand Prix drivers, and we would never want to hold a racing driver back in Grand Pr🎐ix. in his career.

“So we'll kind of see how things play out, but focused on winning the championship and focused on not holdꦅing🍌 him back if we can't provide him with an opportunity in Formula 1, which looks unlikely at this time.”

Audi CEO Mattia Binotto could turn to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mick Schumacher.

Scꦿhumacher is reportedly𝔉 on their shortlist as a possible option.

The German hasn’t raced in F1 since 2022 after being dropped by Haas.