Whereas Bottas persevering with with the Swiss outfit was a formality, there had been some query marks over Zhou.
Nonetheless, the Chinese language driver has now been signed for a 3rd yr with the crew, which is anticipated to revert to the Sauber identification for the subsequent two years, forward of the full transition to the Audi title in 2026.
Present Formulation 2 championship chief Theo Pourchaire will even stay in his reserve and simulator driving function.
“The choice to proceed our journey with our driver line-up unchanged is testomony to the funding we have now made in our venture,” mentioned crew consultant Alessandro Alunni Bravi.
“Nothing in F1 adjustments in a single day, and we have now taken a aware choice to concentrate on stability and to maintain constructing our crew up collectively as we embark on an vital interval of transition.
“Valtteri and Zhou are drivers of identified expertise and ability, they usually work rather well collectively. They’re well-matched and may push one another.
“Valtteri has taken an actual chief’s function throughout the crew, pushing us all to offer our greatest. Zhou has made spectacular steps ahead within the final two years and we count on him to proceed on this trajectory in 2024.
“Now the baton is again to us – we have now to offer each drivers automotive and put them in one of the best circumstances to carry out.”
Zhou Guanyu, Alfa Romeo C43
Photograph by: Alfa Romeo
Zhou’s affirmation signifies that he’ll lastly get an opportunity to race in his residence nation subsequent yr after COVID led to the Shanghai occasion’s absence from the calendar from 2020 to 2023.
“Signing once more with the crew is at all times an ideal feeling, particularly after we understand how issues are shaping up,” he mentioned. “I’m proud to be a part of Alfa Romeo and grateful for his or her belief.
“I’ve been working extraordinarily laborious since day one and there may be an unbelievable degree of motivation to maintain doing so on daily basis ahead.
“My relationship with Valtteri is actually good, and we’re working carefully collectively and with the crew to push everybody ahead.
“I’m additionally very excited concerning the alternative to lastly race with my crew in China, in entrance of my residence crowd. Will probably be an ideal second and I am proud to have the ability to share it with all those that have supported me.”
Bottas insisted that good progress is being made by the crew, even when it has struggled for efficiency on monitor this yr.
“I’ve a sense we have now an thrilling journey forward of us, so I’m completely satisfied and grateful to have the ability to look ahead to 2024 understanding how the crew is shaping up,” mentioned the Finn.
“There’s a good ambiance inside our squad, I get together with Zhou and we each push one another laborious to enhance.
“There may be a formidable quantity of labor happening behind the scenes, in Hinwil and past, and now that the line-up is about for subsequent yr, we are able to focus absolutely on bettering, beginning this weekend in Singapore already.
“Each step ahead we make is a step ahead for this yr and subsequent, so we’re motivated to offer all the things we have now each time we’re trackside or on the manufacturing facility.”