After the conclusion of his hopeless and point-less 2024 campaign, Valtteri Bottas waved the white flag on his Sauber move. "It was a mistake. Everything started off well in the first year, but since then it was downhill," The Finn said. “There was a clear plan for targets for the three years, and also how to get there. But those plans and targets went into the bin when Fred Vasseur left.”
Vasseur left at the end of 2022 to move to Ferrari, replaced by McLaren's Andrea Seidl. After a strong 2022 the then-called Alfa Romeo squad already started slipping back in 2023, but its nadir would follow in 2024 when Sauber finished on four points.
