Formulation 1 rookie Gabriel Bortoleto revealed he obtained a heartwarming message from team-mate Nico Hulkenberg after a crash-filled residence Brazilian Grand Prix.
The Sauber driver’s nightmare weekend began within the dash race, as he spun violently into the pitwall after abruptly shedding management simply as he was lining up an overtake on Alex Albon at Flip 1.
Bortoleto missed qualifying because of the injury he sustained, however his automotive was repaired in time for Sunday’s race. Within the grand prix, nevertheless, the 21-year-old didn’t even final a lap after Lance Stroll crowded him off at Flip 7.
That got here after Bortoleto positioned himself on the surface of the Aston Martin driver and a clip of Stroll’s rear left tyre induced the Sauber to spin into the wall and resulted in broken suspension.
Though it wasn’t the weekend he would have hoped for, Bortoleto did take heat in his dialog with veteran Hulkenberg, who has began 247 grands prix.
“He mentioned one in 20, 20 years in Formulation 1,” mentioned Bortoleto. “You are going to have a whole lot of good and unhealthy moments. I’ve had a whole lot of moments like that. It is simply going to strengthen you. He is pleased with what I’ve carried out this 12 months. I will hold going robust and the nice moments will come.”
It’s not simply Hulkenberg who Bortoleto has impressed in his rookie marketing campaign, as a result of the Brazilian has proven a whole lot of promise with a superior qualifying file in opposition to his team-mate.
It is for that reason that Bortoleto was upset at not with the ability to ship such tempo to his adoring residence followers at Interlagos, who’ve been with no full-time Brazilian F1 driver since Felipe Massa in 2017.
Nico Hulkenberg, Sauber, Gabriel Bortoleto, Sauber
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“Weekend to overlook and transfer on,” mentioned Bortoleto, who received final 12 months’s F2 title. “I simply take the positives that my entire nation was right here supporting me, the Brazilians.
“I am simply unhappy as a result of I’ve not been capable of race in the present day and present a little bit of the tempo that I imagine we had. It comes from me, from my incident in a dash race that induced me to not do quali. So I will be the primary one harsh on myself right here.
“I imagine it is a consequence of issues that occurred earlier within the weekend. However anyway, clearly it is extra painful as a result of it is my residence race, however it’s simply one other weekend. We had so many good ones, we had unhealthy ones as properly.
“And there is nothing I can do about it. I simply want to maneuver on, analyse issues and study from my errors and go for the following one.”
Bortoleto was then pressed on what he may do higher subsequent time, to which he replied: “I feel simply threat administration. I am completely happy that I have been making an attempt to do various things this week and being extra aggressive and making an attempt issues.
“However, like dash race, it is not most likely one of the best second to attempt a dangerous factor when you’ll be able to break your automotive and never do qualifying, like I did. In order that’s for positive studying.”
Further reporting by Andrei Gobbo and Federico Faturos
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