Who is the driver for Alfa Romeo in 2024?
alfa romeo f1 team stake will head into the 2024 season with an unchanged line-up, as the team confirmed that current drivers, valtteri bottas and zhou guanyu, will continue their relationship with the hinwil squad for a third year running. Formula one world championship in 2019, sauber rebranded as alfa romeo, marking the teams return to formula one as a constructor for the first time since 1985, with kimi räikkönen and antonio giovinazzi as their drivers until 2021. Both drivers were replaced in 2022 with valtteri bottas and guanyu zhou.
Why is Alfa Romeo not in F1 anymore?
Alfa Romeo did not have any technical involvement with the team, and the company ended its sponsorship of Sauber after 2023 and left Formula One to allow the team to be taken over by Audi from 2026. Combined with the global financial recession and the company’s frustration about the limitations of the contemporary technical regulations in developing technology relevant to road cars, BMW chose to withdraw from the sport, selling the team back to its founder, Peter Sauber.