is making ready for his second season in Formulation 1. Whereas his rookie yr 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 keen to begin one other season with the F1 crew, which has taken over Sauber.
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“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.”
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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 somewhat be doing this than have a winter break.
Gabriel Bortoleto, Audi
Gabriel Bortoleto, Audi
“Oh, so much. What number of days is troublesome to say. At dwelling I used to be doing sim day by day,” 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 facility and the crew, I used to be like, ‘I wish to return.'”
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Bortoleto has now accomplished the primary day of personal testing in Barcelona. Whereas his day was minimize brief resulting from a technical subject 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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