McLaren Racing announced this Thursday the signing of the young Brazilian Gabriel Bortoletocurrent champion of Formula 3 World Cup and representation agency pilot Fernando Alonso (A14 Management), to be part of the team’s pilot development program Moving.
The pilot of São Paulo This course is the jump on FIA F3 World Cup and achieved the title in the bronze category of the World Cup ladder in his ‘rookie’ year, especially for his excellent start to the year, where he won two consecutive victories in the first two Sunday races of the year (Bahrain and Australia).
Bortoleto He added 4 more podiums throughout the year between the sprint and the Sunday race and made his consistency and regularity his best weapon to take the crown against talents like O’Sullivan, Paul Aron, Cola pinto and Catalan Pepe Marti. Bortoleto He came to Formula 3 with an important experience of three years in formulas that made a difference, because he competed in 2020 in Italian F4, in 2021 he moved to European Regional Formula and in 2022 again competed with the FRECA after the preseason in the Asian Regional Formula. All this, until reaching F3 in 2023 and taking the crown.
“I am excited to join the McLaren Driver Development program. “I am grateful to McLaren and Emanuele for giving me this opportunity.”the pilot commented.
“I’m already at MTC for a tour and to meet the team, which is a very good experience. “I really want to continue my development with a great team”Bortoleto added.
Another student of Alonso’s in the orbit of an F1 team
A14 Management, Fernando Alonso’s representation agency, continues to feed top talent to F1 teams. The Catalan Pepe Marti recently joined the young talent program of red bull. Nikola Tsolov He has been a part of the youth academy for some time and now, Gabriel Bortoleto join this list by entering the young talent program of McLaren.
Son of Badoer, tested
Additionally, McLaren Racing has announced that it has signed a one-year option with Italian Formula 4 driver Brando Badoer, son of former F1 driver Luca Badoer. The British team confirmed that the team will evaluate Brando in the 2024 academic year as an option to sign for McLaren’s development program full-time at the end of his evaluation.
Source: La Verdad
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