F1 Driver Nico Hulkenberg Signs New Contract With Kick Sauber, To Leave Haas After 2024 Season
justjared.comFormula 1′s Nico Hülkenberg will be making a big change going into the 2025 race season next year! The 36-year-old German driver will finish the current 2024 race season with the American-based MoneyGram Haas F1 Team before switching teams. Nico has signed a new contract and will return to Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber in 2025! Keep reading to find out more… This will mark Nico‘s return to the team, which he previously drove for back in 2013.
Sauber will then become Audi in 2026. “We are very pleased to welcome Nico back here in Hinwil from 2025 and to compete with him in Formula 1,” Sauber team CEO Andreas Seidl shared in a statement. “With his speed, his experience and his commitment to teamwork, he will be an important part of the transformation of our team – and of Audi’s F1 project.” “Right from the start, there was great mutual interest in building something long-term together,” Andreas continued. “Nico is a strong personality, and his input, on a professional and personal level, will help us to make progress both in the development of the car and in building up the team.” On his move, Nico says, “I’m returning to the team I worked with back in 2013 and have fond memories of the strong team spirit in Switzerland.
The prospect of competing for Audi is something very special. When a German manufacturer enters Formula 1 with such determination, it is a unique opportunity.
To represent the factory team of such a car brand with a power unit made in Germany is a great honour for me.” With Nico joining Kick Sauber next season, that now means that the team’s current drivers, Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu‘s futures at the team are in jeopardy.
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