The F1 driver who Audi have picked out as a top target
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Esteban Ocon reportedly has emerged as a key driver target to✤ p✤ut in their car.
“Sources say Sauber-run Stཧa🙈ke have the Frenchman very high up on their list as they prepare the operation to become Audi in 2026,” reported.
Ocon is “one of a number of drivers” considered by Andreas Seidl, the ex-McLaren team principal who is now spearheading Audi’s eventual arrival, but is "high up o🍰n t🤪he list".
“Seidl has held meetings with driver mana🅰gers up and down the grid about the future,” it is claime𓃲d.
The team known as Alfa Romeo last season will become Team Stake F1 this year, run🎀 by Sauber, before Audi take over in 2026.
Valtteri Bot๊tas and Zhou Guanyu wܫill retain their driver roles this season.
Veteran Bottas “would love to spearhead Audi’s challenge” b🔴ut he and teammate Zhou “need to up their respective games” if they are to be kept on.
O♌con could be a viable target because his Alpine contract expires at tღhe end of this season.
He outperformed Fernando Alonso in 2022 and was eight points behind 2023 teammate Pierre Gasly despite sev♛en DNFs.
But t💧here is uncertainty at Alpine because the structure of senior management who recruited Ocon (and Gasly) have largely now departed.
The🌼 new toཧp bosses are set to “play the market” despite being content with Ocon and Gasly.
Unless they can tie Ocon down, he looks set to become a key option𒁃 for the team who will eventually morph into Audi.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Amer✱ican sports, to football, to F1.
