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

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Mercedes are set to take advanta🦂ge of an experienced Formula 1 driver losing their race seat.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valtteri Bottas has🌠 been axed from his Sauber dr👍ive next season and has nowhere else to go to keep his racing career alive.
A reunion with former team Mercedes in a reser🗹ve driver role is on the cards.
“Nothing is ✤sigꦅned, nothing is done,” Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said to Viaplay in Las Vegas.
“But if we were to have him back in the family, we woꦉuld be all full of joy.
“What you can say is that if you have the opportunity of having a pilot like Valt♌teri back in the Mercedes family, with his ability, with his most recent experience of these modern c🍎ars, you can deem yourself super lucky.”
Wolff was asked about theও li♔kelihood of agreeing a contract to bring Bottas back.
“It's a matter of time,” he admitted.
Bottas and Sauber teamma♔te Guanyu Zhou have not scored a point all season 🧸as they struggle with the worst car in Formula 1.
At the F1 Las Vegas Grand 𒁃Prix, Zhou was 13th and Bottas 18th.
Sauber will evolve into Audi in 2026 and, with an e💫ye on the future, will field a new-loo🧜k driver combo next season.
They have signed Nico Hulꦦkenberg from Haas and Formula 2 driver Gabriel Bortolet🍌o from McLaren.
Bottas and Zhou have nowhere to turn, ꩲas a result, but Mercedes can offer their former driver a chance to keep a foot in the door.
Similarly, Mercedes snapped up Mick Schumacher as a reserve driver when 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 will go to Ferra▨ri 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 cover🧜ing everything from American sports, to football, to F1.