When the 2026 System 1 season begins, the grid can have an eleventh crew as Cadillac joins the fray. Nonetheless, the season may even see Audi embark on their very own F1 journey, because the German producer takes over Sauber as a brand new works operation.
Now, Audi has unveiled their incoming title accomplice.
In a press release launched on Wednesday, Audi introduced that Revolut, a “world fintech chief with over 60 million prospects,” will be a part of because the crew’s title accomplice for the 2026 season. As a part of this settlement, Audi and Revolut will “set up new methods for followers to work together with the game throughout race weekends, with distinctive experiences for a brand new technology of motorsport fanatics and unique advantages for Revolut prospects.”
As well as, Revolut Enterprise “will likely be extensively built-in into the crew’s monetary operations.”
“Audi is getting into System 1 with a transparent ambition: to make use of the platform as a technologically related and economically sustainable funding in the way forward for the Audi model,” mentioned Gernot Döllner, the CEO of AUDI AG and Chairman of the Board of Sauber Motorsport AG.
“We firmly consider within the success of our venture, which we’re approaching with a practical angle and a mindset of steady enchancment. In Revolut, we’ve discovered a accomplice that shares our ambitions and angle. System 1 is a worldwide stage that provides us the chance to achieve new goal teams collectively and generate enthusiasm for our merchandise.”
Jonathan Wheatley, the present Group Principal at Sauber and the longer term Group Principal of the Audi F1 Group, referred to as the partnership a “strategic alliance” that can “problem conventions” within the motorsport world.
“With Revolut, we’ve discovered a accomplice that shares our core ethos of innovation and relentless ambition,” mentioned Wheatley. “That is greater than a model match; it’s a strategic alliance, engineered to problem conventions in motorsport. From 2026, Revolut’s digital-first options will energy key areas of our operations whereas additionally redefining how followers and communities have interaction with our crew – delivering a seamless and fascinating expertise on and off the monitor.”
In the intervening time, Sauber sits sixth within the F1 Constructors’ Championship standings with 43 factors, placing them on monitor for the crew’s finest season for the reason that 2022 marketing campaign, the place they completed sixth with 55 factors.
Driver Nico Hülkenberg additionally secured the crew’s first podium since Kamui Kobayashi completed third within the 2012 Japanese Grand Prix, when Hülkenberg completed third on the British Grand Prix.
It was Hülkenberg’s first F1 podium, coming in his 239th begin.
