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McLaren says Bortoleto’s future stays up in air as Sauber talks advance
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McLaren says Bortoleto’s future stays up in air as Sauber talks advance

By Miles Cooper November 2, 2024
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McLaren insists no remaining resolution has been made about Gabriel Bortoleto’s Method 1 future, amid rising indications that the Brazilian might be poised to safe a cope with Sauber.

Bortoleto, who’s a part of McLaren’s younger driver programme, has impressed in F2 this season — and at the moment leads the championship with solely the Qatar and Abu Dhabi rounds remaining.

His sturdy kind, off the again of profitable the 2023 F3 championship, has thrust him into rivalry for a seat at Sauber, which has been pondering whether or not to go together with a teenager for the long-term or stick to an skilled driver like incumbent Valtteri Bottas.

Sources have indicated that Bortoleto is closing in on a deal, though it’s unclear if that is for subsequent season or for 2026 when the Sauber staff will formally turn out to be Audi.

For Bortoleto to be free to race for Sauber, he would must be launched from his McLaren younger driver contract.

Talking on the Brazilian Grand Prix, staff principal Andrea Stella reiterated that his squad would don’t have any hesitation in doing so.

It’s understood, nonetheless, that such a launch depends on Bortoleto having a agency race contract on the desk, reasonably than it being for a reserve or check function.

Stella mentioned: “Having the chance to speak about Gabriel, I wish to take this chance to say as soon as once more how good a piece he is been doing in junior classes, profitable F3, main F2 on the first season.

“That is to guide into the truth that I feel it is very, very regular and pure that Method 1 groups are concerned with having Gabriel as a driver.

“When it comes to McLaren, McLaren is not going to cease the chance for Gabriel to drive Method 1. So conversations are ongoing and we are going to see what the situation will probably be for the longer term.”

McLaren says Bortoleto’s future stays up in air as Sauber talks advance

Gabriel Bortoleto, Invicta Racing

Photograph by: Shameem Fahath

Bortoleto has earned some followers inside the F1 paddock together with his driving this 12 months and three-time world champion Max Verstappen mentioned earlier this weekend that if he was Sauber he would decide to him straightaway.

“If I used to be Sauber, I’d have signed him already,” mentioned Verstappen. “I imply, particularly if that is anyway for the longer term and ‘26, with the large rule change.

“It is all the time good to get used to a staff already for a 12 months, make your errors right here and there, get built-in nicely, and perceive the automotive a bit. You all the time really feel far more ready and cozy if you then begin in ‘26.”

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