Source: REUTERS/HAMAD I MOHAMMED
[Saba Sports News] After the end of last season, Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas lost his position at the Sauber team. For the 2025 season, he will return to the Mercedes team as a reserve driver. Recently, according to reports from British media, Bottas’s possibility of returning to F1 in 2026 is very high. In the 2026 season, Spanish driver Carlos Sainz might join the Cadillac team, which would leave a spot open at Williams. They are very interested in experienced F1 drivers, and Bottas is one of them. In an interview, Bottas stated that despite facing challenges in recent years, he knows he can still contribute more to F1 and looks forward to using all the knowledge he has gained to help a new team move toward their goals. In contrast, Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu, who also left the Sauber team last season, has been less in the news lately, and his future remains uncertain.