For the most recent episode of the F1 Nation podcast, host Tom Clarkson is joined by the game’s latest star in Gabriel Bortoleto, who was just lately confirmed as a Kick Sauber driver for the 2025 season.
Bortoleto and Clarkson, together with 1996 champion Damon Hill and former Brazilian F1 racer Luciano Burti, talk about the 20-year-old’s rise to the highest of the game by way of race-winning stints in F4, F3 and, most just lately, F2.
ANALYSIS: Why Sauber selected to go together with Bortoleto and youth quite than Bottas and expertise
Why did Bortoleto, final 12 months’s F3 champion and the present F2 factors chief, select Sauber? Why have Sauber, forward of their rebranding to Audi’s works staff, chosen him? And what does the deal imply to followers in Brazil?
