“It’s actually a high precedence as a result of we have to resolve as quickly as we will, however we want as properly to make the right alternative,” Binotto tells me in his first interview since taking the job. “Now we have no rush in a means.
“It’s a precedence. Why am I saying no rush? Now now we have an inventory of drivers out there and we will actually take our time to debate with all of them and to hear and to make the perfect for Sauber and Audi.
“Our journey is trying to the subsequent years, it’s not solely 2025 so when assessing the selection, we have to take a look at what’s greatest realizing what we have to obtain sooner or later.
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“Valtteri [Bottas] is doing properly, and definitely I’ve already [had] some discussions with him. A great first impression however, having stated that, there are a lot of drivers on the checklist and we want as Audi to take our time to evaluate what’s greatest. And hopefully quickly we make a decision.”
Sauber can decide to stay with expertise and maintain considered one of Bottas or Zhou Guanyu on for a fourth season or go for youth – and select from the likes of Gabriel Bortoleto, who’s at present second in F2, Robert Shwartzman, Zane Maloney or Theo Pourchaire.
The crew are the one squad but to attain in 2024 so expertise can be useful as they appear to haul themselves again into the midfield. Nonetheless, this can be a long-term mission for Sauber/Audi and, thus, a younger expertise who’s dedicated for the foreseeable might make sense.
