Just like with the new name of AlphaTauri, we don't yet know exactly what we will call the successors of Alfa Romeo. Stake? Kick? Sauber? Stake Sauber? Kick Sauber? Stake Kick Sauber? And we can continue with variations for a while. Sauber is our preference now, so let's stick with that. So today Sauber presents the F1 car for 2024.
Even though we steadfastly keep Sauber as the team name, the team colors are clearly inspired by the corporate colors of sponsor Kick. The C44 is a green monster with black accents here and there. It looks dangerous, this F1 car from Sauber, but will it stand out in the already dark F1 field of 2024? Maybe use a little glow-in-the-dark paint at the evening races?
Sauber drivers in 2024
Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu have apparently presented well enough to keep F2 champion and Sauber junior Théo Pourchaire from an F1 debut season. Bottas will therefore start his thirteenth season in F1 in 2024. His racing career seems to fizzle out as he makes more and more friends with F1 fans by releasing a nude calendar and growing a large moustache.
Guanyu Zhou has only completed two F1 seasons. After his debut, in which many people thought that Zhou was only allowed to drive because he brought a lot of money, Zhou showed that he can make things difficult for Bottas at times. Zhou only really made news during a major crash at Silverstone. You can probably still remember the images.
Sauber in 2023
The team, which was then still known as Alfa Romeo, struggled against the points finishes throughout the 2023 season with at least one car per race. In the end, Bottas scored ten points and Zhou eight. It resulted in a poor ninth place among the constructors. Sauber will want to show what it is worth in the next two years towards the transformation into an Audi factory team.
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