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Bortoleto reveals his early F1 class in response to Marko “B driver” jibe
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Bortoleto reveals his early F1 class in response to Marko “B driver” jibe

By Miles Cooper March 14, 2025
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Bortoleto reveals his early F1 class in response to Marko “B driver” jibe

In issuing an aesthetic response to Crimson Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko branding him as solely a “B” calibre driver, rookie Gabriel Bortoleto has continued his robust begin to life within the Components 1 media highlight.

Two weeks in the past within the Bahrain take a look at, Bortoleto was frank however angst-less in discussing how restrictions on F1’s Testing of Earlier Vehicles (TPC) rule – reduce to 1,000km over simply 4 days and break up throughout each drivers in a crew – means he arrives as one of many least ready drivers within the championship’s historical past given the continued restriction on pre- and in-season testing.

By comparability, seven-time world champion was capable of log practically 5,000 miles of operating in older after which present equipment forward of his F1 bow in 2007.

A few of Bortoleto’s deficit stems from his late signing for Sauber in November 2024 – because it meant he didn’t full prolonged TPC programmes equivalent to these run by for Jack Doohan forward of his F1 commencement.

Now in Melbourne for the 2025 season opener after talking eloquently on one niggling matter for rookie drivers in Bahrain, Bortoleto needed to confront one other in being questioned on the barbs of Marko.

Showing on Crimson Bull’s in-house broadcaster ServusTV on Monday, Marko was requested to grade the 5 2025 rookies aside from Liam Lawson.

Liam Lawson, Crimson Bull Racing, Helmut Marko, Crimson Bull RacingLiam Lawson, Red Bull Racing, Helmut Marko, Red Bull Racing<span class="copyright">Sam Bloxham / Motorsport Images</span>

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He declared Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Haas driver Oliver Bearman as “A” drivers – albeit with caveats relating to strain on the previous in debuting in F1 with and a query in regards to the dangers he views because the latter typically taking – and gave the identical ‘grade’ to new driver Isack Hadjar.

Marko dismissed Alpine’s Jack Doohan – one other Crimson Bull junior between 2017-2021 – as a “C driver – I don’t suppose he’ll full the complete season” and gave Bortoleto only one grade greater.

“I’d price him a B driver,” stated Marko. “He’s a really clever racer – he received the Components 3 championship [in 2023], however with just one victory. He tends to remain out of bother.

“In Components 2, he had solely two wins. He’s a driver who brings the automotive house, has a stable grasp of technique and tyre administration, however I don’t see that final pace in him.”

When these feedback have been put to Bortoleto in Melbourne, he replied: “I don’t care. I’ve seen that and I like challenges.

“Listening to that from Helmut – he’s a man who has put a whole lot of expertise in Components 1 and has put a whole lot of incorrect abilities in F1. So, you possibly can see he obtained it proper and incorrect and hopefully I’ll show him incorrect.

Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes, Oliver Bearman, Haas F1 Crew, Isack Hadjar, RB F1 Crew, Carlos Sainz, Williams, Gabriel Bortoleto, SauberAndrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes, Oliver Bearman, Haas F1 Team, Isack Hadjar, RB F1 Team, Carlos Sainz, Williams, Gabriel Bortoleto, Sauber<span class="copyright">Sam Bagnall / Motorsport Images</span>

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“However nothing I say now within the media will change his thoughts – simply my outcomes on monitor. I’m certain I’ll show him incorrect sooner or later and hopefully he’ll admit this.

“For now, I’m simply specializing in doing my job and enhancing and doing the perfect I can. I’m happy with what I did within the junior sequence and I received in F2 and F3 towards the Crimson Bull drivers he has, so good for me.”

Additionally talking in Melbourne was – who has Bortoleto signed to his A14 administration firm.

Whereas not requested about Marko’s feedback, Alonso as an alternative opined once more on Bortoleto’s “dedication and his professionalism in direction of racing” – after being stuffed with reward for his cost late in 2024.

“[That] has been in all probability probably the most spectacular factor,” Alonso added. “Since day one, he was very dedicated to work onerous for his desires – already in FRECA however then in Components 3 after which Components 2, every race was very properly ready and a really mature strategy.

“I believe he deserves to be in Components 1 and hopefully [has] a protracted profession right here and [is] profitable. He has been the perfect rookie of this subsequent era that we see so many rookies [coming] into F1 this yr.

“He has been the perfect of them, so [although] possibly he does not have the automotive in the mean time to match their outcomes the primary yr, hopefully individuals do not forget what he did within the final two.”

With monitor motion in Melbourne below a day away, Bortoleto doesn’t have lengthy to attend in his quiet quest to show certainly one of F1’s largest talkers incorrect.

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