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# Podcast: What Sauber's driver choice says about Audi's F1 project
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/f1-podcast-valtteri-bottas-out-gabriel-bortoleto-in-sauber/
- Published: 2024-11-07T09:47:59.000Z
- Updated: 2024-11-09T11:09:49.000Z
- Description: The Race F1 Podcast discuss Sauber's decision to drop Valtteri Bottas for Gabriel Bortoleto
- Author: Edd Straw
- Tags: Formula 1, #sauber, #audi, #valtteri-bottas

Sauber's finally made its big Formula 1 driver call - and it's Gabriel Bortoleto in, Valtteri Bottas out. 

On the latest episode of The Race F1 Podcast, Edd Straw and Scott Mitchell-Malm discuss why Sauber took so long, why it went for youth over experience and what it says about the team that it was picking between these two drivers.

There's also debate around whether Bottas deserved better - both in terms of Sauber dropping him and the team's handling of the deliberations. 

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