Gabriel Bortoleto is making ready for his second season in Formulation 1. Whereas his rookie 12 months is now behind him, the Brazilian driver has confirmed he has not modified his method in his preparations for the upcoming season.
Bortoleto completed nineteenth within the 2025 drivers’ championship and is raring to begin one other season with the Audi F1 group, which has taken over Sauber.
“To be trustworthy, the identical manner I approached my rookie season,” he defined on the Audi F1 launch occasion in Berlin when requested how he is going into 2026.
“The method of being skilled and dealing onerous is all the time the identical and I really feel like I by no means actually took the rookie title as a factor in F3 or F2 or F1 — it is simply one other new season.
“For me it is simply going to be all about working onerous and making ready [for] the season as a lot as I can in addition to studying from my errors.”
As he prepares for the season forward, which ushers in a brand new set of rules, Bortoleto has been placing in time on the simulator. He defined that he’d slightly be doing this than have a winter break.
Gabriel Bortoleto, Audi
Photograph by: Formulation 1
“Oh, quite a bit. What number of days is tough to say. At residence I used to be doing sim on daily basis,” he added. “If I might, I would not also have a winter break. It was good to spend a little bit of time with household however I really feel like after 5 days I used to be already feeling a bit ineffective. I used to be away from the manufacturing unit and the group, I used to be like, ‘I need to return.'”
Bortoleto has now accomplished the primary day of personal testing in Barcelona. Whereas his day was lower quick on account of a technical situation after 27 laps, he defined that it was a constructive day, and stopping was merely a precaution.
Personal testing will proceed for the remainder of the week earlier than two extra blocks of testing in Bahrain on 11-13 February and 18-20 February.
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