Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto has been endorsed to drive for the Audi-claimed Sauber group one year from now.
The 20-year-old, who is driving the current year's Equation 2 title, will accomplice German veteran Nico Hulkenberg.
The choice implies that Sauber's ebb and flow drivers, Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu, won't be in F1 next season.
Sauber head working and specialized official Mattia Binotto said it had been a "clear choice without any questions whatsoever".
The group decided to give Bortoleto his F1 debut since they had been "dazzled by his vocation up until this point," Binotto said.
He said Bortoleto was "perhaps one of the most capable and high potential drivers we have as newbies."
Binotto added that he had been consoled by the exhibitions of Argentine newbie Franco Colapinto since he was drafted in by Williams for the last piece of the time.
"Seeing youthful drivers doing very much gave me more certainty that Gabriel can do well all along," Binotto said. "I'm persuaded he will truly do well all along."
Bortoleto, who was champion in Recipe 3 in his presentation season in 2023 preceding moving into F2 this year, had "proactively exhibited in the lesser classifications that he has the stuff to be a triumphant driver," Binotto said.
Bortoleto is overseen by double cross title holder Fernando Alonso and has been a piece of the McLaren driver improvement program.
McLaren said in an explanation that they would deliver him toward the finish of the 2024 season.
"We have areas of strength for a line-up in Lando (Norris) and Oscar (Piastri) and we have forever been certain that we wouldn't disrupt the general flow of a chance for Gabriel to advance while we are not in that frame of mind to offer him a seat with McLaren," the assertion said.
Bortoleto said he and Alonso "consistently joke" about the reality they will race against each other from 2025.
"Before I was conceived he began dashing in F1," Bortoleto said, "and presently I will race against him. He has been helping me a ton in my excursion. It will be tomfoolery and I will have a great time with him."
Binotto said: "I have been asking certain drivers who have been driving with you and everybody was extremely dazzled. Yet additionally, because he is extremely youthful.
"For our excursion for the Audi F1 group, developing along with a youthful driver was vital.
"At the point when we met I was quickly dazzled by the demeanor. So as a driver, we chose, however personally. He can truly be a pioneer for the group."
Bortoleto said: "This is one of the most astonishing tasks in motorsport, while perhaps not in all of sports.
"Past essentially being a part, I mean to develop with this aggressive task and arrive at the zenith of motorsport.
"Mattia was really certain about the Audi task and how I could create as a driver too.
"I see a great deal myself in this undertaking. I expected to persuade him considerably more than he expected to persuade me, yet I distinguished a ton (with it)."
Binotto, who was Ferrari group head from 2019-22, said last month that transforming Sauber into a triumphant group under the Audi name was "not just getting over a major mountain, it's getting over Everest".
He said in a video delivered by Sauber on Wednesday: "It will take a couple of seasons to turn into a cutthroat group. Our goal will be to expect to battle for a title in 2030, and, surprisingly, that is extremely aggressive."
Bottas, who made his presentation in F1 for Williams in 2013 and came out on top in 10 races in his five years at Mercedes as colleague to Lewis Hamilton from 2017-21, said: "A circumstance like this is never simple for anybody. However, after all the great and top-to-bottom conversations we had in the previous weeks, we understood that the circumstances to develop this undertaking together were not met.
"These previous years with the group have been an amazing excursion, brimming with development, challenges, and extraordinary minutes.
"However now is the right time to continue on, I'll constantly convey a piece of this group with me, and I anticipate seeing what's in store for us both."
Bortoleto has given Brazil a full-time presence on the F1 network since Felipe Massa left the game toward the finish of 2017.
The nation is one of the best in F1, with previous drivers including numerous title holders Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet, and Ayrton Senna.
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