Bottas highlights Sainz's role in delaying 2025 F1 driver moves

Carlos Sainz is currently the major obstacle delaying the forthcoming, ongoing and tumultuous early driver changes for the 2025 season.

This perspective comes from Valtteri Bottas, who appears set to leave the Audi-owned Sauber team by year's end.

Now under the complete control of Volkswagen's subsidiary Audi, the Swiss outfit has confirmed Nico Hulkenberg for one of next year's seats—a move Bottas, in Miami, described as "making sense" due to Hulkenberg's German origins.

With Audi also courting soon-to-be-former Ferrari driver Sainz for the remaining seat, both Bottas and his current teammate Guanyu Zhou are exploring options with other Formula 1 teams.

"Everyone wants to race for the best team possible," Bottas conveyed . . .