Gabriel Bortoleto avoided dragging out the lament about Audi’s tire strategy at the Formula 1 Canadian GP. The driver spoke of turning the page and wants to focus on the Monaco stage, the next stop.
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The German team, like McLaren and Carlos Sainz, chose to start in Montreal with intermediate tires, a wet track but drying. However, after just the first laps, they quickly went to the pits to switch to slick compound – the competitor first fitted soft, then went to medium.
Evaluating the race on SporTV, Bortoleto avoided creating numerous scenarios and talking about the ‘what ifs’, and preferred to just focus on what he can learn and what to work on for the Monaco GP, the next stage of Formula 1.
“I’m not going to create hypotheses about what this race could have been. Up to that point, so many things could have changed. Now, looking back after the race ended, it’s easy to say, from my side, ‘if I had started with that tire’. At that moment, it was what the team believed, it was what I believed, and it seemed right to me,” he said.
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“I think if I had started on dry tires, just look: the cars that started behind us, with less pace than us, finished in the points. So, I believe the potential was there, but there’s nothing to do, it’s time to turn the page. There are many races ahead this year, we have so much to learn, so much to improve after this weekend that is clear within the team, and focus for the next one,” he continued.
“Monaco is coming soon and there are many things for us to fix, because we suffered with many details this weekend, which cannot happen,” he concluded.
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