Gabriel Bortoleto makes his P1 debut!
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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?
I don't know, actually. You know, like Formula One keeps evolving and doing different stuff. It's different. I don't think I would change anything. Probably just maybe change a bit the format of the race weekends. Make something different. Not that I don't like what I have now, but maybe making it a bit less time in FP and straight away quali or some stuff like this. Like this we need to push. We spend Thursday and then Friday and then we arrive on Saturday only to do a qualifying. Sometimes it takes a bit too long.
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.
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