1997 F1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve has hit out at his former team Sauber for “not even trying to be that competitive” ahead of Audi’s arꦿrival in 2026.

S🍰auber are the only team on the 2024 F1 ൩grid yet to score a point.

The Swiss-based outfit have often seen their drivers,168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Valtteri Bottas and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Zhou Guanyu - qualify 19th and 2🍷0th respectively, before finishing well do🐻wn the order on race day.

Despite starting the season fairly competitive, pit stop woes thwarted Bottas’ chances of sco♊ring points on numerous occasions.

As the development race progressed, Sauber have plummeted to the back of the grid, cut adrift of the liꦫkes of Alpine and Williams.

Audi will take over the Sauber🉐 from 2026, becoming a fully-fledged works outfit.

However,🦋 Villeneuve - who previously raced for the team during their BMW days - didn’t mince his words when criticising them ahead of the Aze♓rbaijan Grand Prix.

“I mean the funny thing is about Sauber is that they’re at the back more or less every qualifying and more or less every race, but you look at the times, the grid♏ is so close, it’s only about a second, maybe a second-and-a-haไlf that they’re off pole,” he said.

“So, it’s obviously not a bad Formula 1 car, it’s just compared to everybody else it is. They would be happy in the 1990s when the last guys were five seconds off the pac𝐆e.

“But they’re just 🃏surviving until Audi takes over. They don’t seem like they’re pushing much 🐷into the car.

“They’re not e♔ven trying to be that c🔴ompetitive, so, there’s not much to say there.”

Sauber are still yℱet to decide their 2025 F1 driver line-up🍎.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Hulkenberg was announced earlier in the year, but new Audi boss Mattia Binotto is🧸 weighing up his optio🌃ns.

Bottas remains a cl𒐪ear option for them, while they’re reportedly considering McLaren junior Gabriel Bortoleto.

Bortol𝓰eto sits top of the Formula 2 drivers’ standings with one round to go in💦 2024.