The FIA entry list for this season had previously listed them as 'Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber', but this won't be the nam♈e they use on a frequent basis.

Instead, the team who were known a🗹s Alfa Romeo last year confirmed a new identity on New Year's Day after teasing fans on social media by saying “Just when you thought the sizzle was over, we’re about to raise the stakes even higher.”

Stake, ℱthe betting brand, will now be the exclusive title partner for the 2024 and 2025 seasons, ꦜas Sauber take over from Alfa Romeo.

Then𓄧 from 2026 when the new F1 regulations come in, the team wil💃l again transform into Audi. The German manufacturers are hoping to cause quite a stir with their eventual arrival.

Audi will also become a power unit manufacturer, and have b✤een busy creating their own en൲gine to launch a challenge in two years' time.

But for this year, Stake F1 Team will b🤡ecome the id💦entity.

Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu will remain as the two drivers although their places will inevitably come unde⛎r scrutiny ahead of Audi's ar𝓀rival.

Last year, Alfa Romeo finished ninth in the F1 constructors' championship while Bottas finishe💞d 15th, and Zhou 18th, in the drivers' standings.

A fresh start, with the promise of even bigger things starting in🃏 2026, will bring fresh hope for Stake F1 Team in 2024.