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Chapter 1: How is Gabriel Bortoleto adjusting to life in Formula 1?
Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 Podcast with Matt, Tommy and Gabby Portoletto. Thank you for joining us here in Monaco. What a backdrop. How are you doing, my friend?
Doing good. Well, hasn't been the cleanest day for me today, unfortunately.
we were having a very strong weekend you know top 10 all the sessions and then i i crashed into like i touched the wall in t10 and ended up breaking the suspension so hey by the time this goes out you were to score points tomorrow don't worry it's all good it's all happiness from here we're not going to reflect on t10 don't worry okay so we've got some questions from from fans and ourselves uh the first one
is do you see videos and memes people make about you online? How online are you?
I see, yes. I see quite a few. I enjoy, you know, the funny ones. Obviously, there are some of them that are not funny. But I must say I like watching. At the end of the day, I'm Gen Z, you know, they say. So I spend a bit of time on TikTok, Instagram.
i don't do much to be honest but you know before i go to sleep i open tickets what's the what's the weirdest one you've seen no there was one actually funny this day i even commented on the video because you know i was i think it was miami that i want to jump like when we finish the race you need to stop the car obviously like in the park for men and then you need to jump out of the car and then when i went like i look up
And then I went over the halo because it's not easy to leave a Formula 1 car. It's quite complex. You don't want to hit the carbon pieces because each of them costs like hundreds of thousands. So you need to be very careful. So I step in the halo. I look up. There was no one. When I look down, put my feet there, and I jump again, I jump into a mechanic. And then I fall. And then...
Recently, I started just sitting in the halo and then I just moved my legs to the other side. So it's much safer and I don't risk any damage to my body. And then someone made like, there was a day where, and then a funny music behind and me jumping and falling. And nowadays me just chilling. So you're thinking about the TikToks when you get out now?
No, I cannot reach that level. We've asked this to every driver that we've spoken to. And it can be as silly or as serious as you like. If you could change one rule in Formula One, what would it be?
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Chapter 2: What does Gabriel Bortoleto think about his online presence and memes?
How do you feel about reverse grids? We've had that previously. People have said, you know, I don't like that.
No, no, no. Because I feel like you should have only one Grand Prix, one race. And then if you do a reverse grid, even if you're shit in quali, literally, you're going to be good in the reverse grid. And then, you know, we have we had this in F2 and F3, but I couldn't I never won a sprint race.
But even when you finish in the podium, you don't feel good unless you start from the back and you finish on the podium. But when you finish on the podium, starting like quite ahead, it means that you did a very bad job in quality.
Yeah. OK, no reverse grids. That's that's what we've heard. So we're here in Monaco. I'd love to get your sort of feelings and emotions the first time you drove a Formula One car around here, because like, you know, we've driven on the F1 game and that's scary enough. How would you describe how you felt the first time you went around here in an F1 car?
Oh, it's extremely quick. It's, you know, the walls are getting closer and closer through the weekends. Unfortunately, I saw one of them very closely today. Hey, we're not talking about today. Yeah, but it feels like always the first time when you jump in this track, man. It's crazy. Like the emotions, the feeling, the speed in the corners. It's amazing.
We'll move on to happier things. What's the, could you tell us the funniest thing that's happened when you've had a gaming session with Max Verstappen? Or like a funny moment that you can remember when you were gaming with Max?
I mean, one of them, he rages a lot when he's gaming, so I always have so much laughs when he does something stupid and I just laugh so much. Or when we are playing sim and we decide just to race each other quite aggressively and then if someone pushes each other out and then in the next breaking point the other guy doesn't break and then it's so funny to see the frustration there.
I love it. I love that even F1 drivers do that.
Oh yeah, we do the most. I love hitting people in the sim.
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Chapter 3: What rule would Gabriel change in Formula One, if any?
Appreciate it. Best of luck tomorrow.
Thank you, guys. Enjoy.
All right, we have said goodbye to Gabby Bortoletto and we're saying hello to Alan McNish. Alan, thank you so much for coming on the podcast. For those that don't know, can you just give a little bit of a line about what you do, where you've come from? Because, of course, you've been involved in Formula One and motorsport for a very long time.
Yeah, I'm the racing director of the Audi Revolut F1 team. And effectively, it means that I'm in charge of everything here at the race. Principally, it's all of the racing operations being in terms of how we run the car, the drivers, management of that, but also touch into all of our VIP guests and, well, the communications as well. And so therefore, there's quite a wide array of touch points.
And as you say, I've been involved in this sport since, one way or another, 1981, when I started karting as a wee boy up in the north of Scotland.
How is it that, obviously, you represented Audi at Le Mans, a legendary partnership that you had together and amazing memories. Now, working with Audi and seeing them come into Formula One, how has that been?
Yeah you're right you know Audi had such a tradition at Le Mans actually and it made a lot of our drivers careers in a way and so Tom Christensen's here this weekend as well someone that I spent many hours driving around that place in the La Sarthe which is next weekend as it turns out so I'm missing it I'm in Barcelona but I've already got the live stream sorted out but I think the
The principles of the way we go racing is exactly the same. It's with a clear direction.
end goal being winning but with the knowledge that actually it takes time to do that it takes time to build the infrastructure of the team and also against the competition and so having seen this particular program right from the beginning from day one and how it's grown because i've been involved in it with different roles as well in the background of that then i i'm fully invested and fully invested into it but at the same time as well
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Chapter 4: How did Gabriel feel the first time he drove in Monaco?
You know, we were changing engines twice per day. and now you're looking at the power units for the whole season. So there's been so many changes, but the biggest single change I would say is If you look at the grid from back to front, it's so narrow.
It's hundreds of a second that's differentiating, you know, whether you jump into the next part of qualifying or you're on the second or the third or the fourth row. And that was over tenths and, you know, three, four tenths of a second back then. And the other thing is you had one or two races that were like Monaco, one or two races that were packed out. Now every single race is packed out.
Every single person knows about Formula One. And when they're coming here, they're coming here for entertainment on and off the circuit. And that's another big change. I would say it's all for the benefit, actually.
Yeah, we're pretty happy with how Formula One has gone as well. It's definitely gone in the right direction. Big thanks to Alan for coming on. Really appreciate your insight and for the funny story as well. So thank you. It wasn't that funny. It was painful, I can tell you. It was a PG story. Thank you. P1 is a Stack production and part of the ACAST Creative Network.