A ditched F1 driver set to sign new deal for Mercedes role
Toto Wolff reveals a deal is close to completion

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mercedes are set to take advantage of ꦅan ✅experienced Formula 1 driver losing their race seat.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Valtteri Bottas has been axed from his Sauber dri🐭ve next season and has nowhere else to go to keep his racing career alive.
A reunion with former team Mercedes in a reserve driver role ꩲis on the cards.
“Nothing is signed, nothing is done,” Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff sai💛d to Viaplay in Las Vegas.
“But if we were to have him back in the family, we woꦜuld be all full of jo𓄧y.
“What you can say is that if you have the opportunity of having a pilot like Valtteri back in the Mercedes famil🌼y, with his ability, with his most recent experience of these modern cars, you can deem🧔 yourself super lucky.”
Wolff was asked about the likelihood of agreeing a contract to bring Bottas baཧck.
“It's a matter of time,” he admitted.
Bottasไ and Sauber teammate Guanyu Zhou have not scored a point all season as they struggle with the 𝓰worst car in Formula 1.
At the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix, ꦗZhou was 13th and Bottas 18th.
Sauber🌳 will evolve into Audi in 2026 and, with an eye on the future, will field a new-look driver combo next season.
They have signe👍d Nico Hulkenberg from Haas and Formula 2 driver Gabriel Bortoleto from𝔍 McLaren.
Bottas and Zho▨u have nowhere to turn, as a result, but Mercedes can offer their former dri𝔍ver a chance to keep a foot in the door.
𝕴Similarly, Mercedes snapped up Mick Schumacher as a reserve driver w💧hen he lost his F1 race seat.
Bottas will return to a renewed Mercedes in 2025 where former teammate Lewis Hamilton will no longer be present. Hamilton wilཧl go to Ferrari leaving George Russell and Kimi Antonelli as Mercedes’ drivers.
Bottas won 10 grands prix with Mercedes.

James was a sports journalist at ♑Sky Sports for a decade coveri𓆉ng everything from American sports, to football, to F1.