[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"header-nav":3,"footer-nav":29,"article-bortoleto-audi-best-rest-hungarian-gp":82,"category-counts-nav":96,"related-bortoleto-audi-best-rest-hungarian-gp":106},[4,8,11,14,17,20,23,26],{"label":5,"to":6,"exact":7},"Home","\u002F",true,{"label":9,"to":10},"World Cup","\u002Fworldcup",{"label":12,"to":13},"Standings","\u002Fstandings",{"label":15,"to":16},"Football","\u002Fcategory\u002Ffootball",{"label":18,"to":19},"Basketball","\u002Fcategory\u002Fbasketball",{"label":21,"to":22},"Tennis","\u002Fcategory\u002Ftennis",{"label":24,"to":25},"F1","\u002Fcategory\u002Ff1",{"label":27,"to":28},"Long Reads","\u002Fcategory\u002Flong-reads",{"brand":30,"columns":32,"tagline":80,"copyright":81},{"description":31},"In-depth sports journalism covering football, basketball, tennis, F1, and beyond. 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All rights reserved.",{"title":83,"slug":84,"category":85,"badge":86,"author":87,"excerpt":88,"date":89,"readTime":90,"image":91,"imageAlt":83,"tags":92,"body":94,"_path":95},"Bortoleto Eyes Best of the Rest as Audi Show Friday Pace in Budapest","bortoleto-audi-best-rest-hungarian-gp","f1","F1: Feature","Jake Morrison","The Audi rookie senses a real opportunity at the Hungaroring after a Friday that exceeded expectations.","2026-07-24 18:33:33","2 min read","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fbortoleto-audi-best-rest-hungarian-gp.webp",[46,93],"Hungarian Grand Prix","## Bortoleto sets a \"best of the rest\" target after a strong Audi Friday in Budapest\n\n**Gabriel Bortoleto** left Friday practice at the Hungaroring with a clear objective: Audi can beat every midfield rival at the Hungarian Grand Prix.\n\n\"We can be best of the rest behind the leading teams,\" Bortoleto said after the two sessions. His confidence came from a car that felt planted through the medium-speed second sector, where the Hungaroring's tight, twisting layout and low-degradation surface reward mechanical grip, a stable rear end, and traction out of slow-speed hairpins. Bortoleto reported all three.\n\nThe **2024 Formula 2 champion** has spent his rookie season learning the margins of F1's midfield, where tenths separate sixth from thirteenth and one setup misstep can ruin a weekend. Audi's car has swung between competitive midfield machinery and a handful depending on circuit type, and Bortoleto has been left to extract what the package offers on any given weekend, producing flashes of pace interrupted by the inconsistency that comes with limited testing and a compressed practice-to-qualifying pipeline.\n\nBudapest suits him. The track rewards driver input more than most: commitment through the blind crest at Turn 4, precision through the chicane at Turns 6 and 7, patience through the climbing right-hander at Turn 11. Bortoleto's junior career showed a particular affinity for technical, low-speed layouts.\n\nAlpine, Haas, Williams, RB, and Aston Martin have traded blows all season in the gap between McLaren, Ferrari, Red Bull, and Mercedes and the backmarkers. A clean Friday gives Bortoleto a platform, but the Hungaroring punishes qualifying errors more than almost anywhere on the calendar. Overtaking is scarce. Track position is the currency, and the tow through the final sector onto the pit straight is the one realistic chance to pass.\n\nOver-reading Friday is the obvious risk. Fuel loads, engine modes, tyre compounds, and run plans can mislead, and every team knows it. Whether Bortoleto's balance advantage holds on a representative fuel load and compound will be the question qualifying answers.\n\n## Bortoleto's path through a Hungaroring qualifying session where grid position is everything\n\nQualifying at the Hungaroring is everything. A top-eight grid slot in Budapest almost always converts to points; outside it, the race is damage limitation. For Bortoleto and Audi, the mission is straightforward: lock down the sixth-to-eighth grid bracket and race the cars ahead, not the ones behind.\n\nFor Audi, the weekend carries weight past a single result. The team's transition from the Sauber era is a multi-year project, and visible 2025 progress matters for recruitment, sponsor confidence, and the internal narrative heading into the next regulation cycle. Every Q3 appearance and points finish adds to that ledger.\n\nBortoleto has set his standard at Friday practice. 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The Real Countdown is to a Technical Revolution.","2026-06-25 18:08:18","https:\u002F\u002Fichef.bbci.co.uk\u002Face\u002Fstandard\u002F976\u002Fcpsprodpb\u002Feb50\u002Flive\u002F2c8c2220-d5ba-11f0-8c06-f5d460985095.jpg","Beyond the confirmed March 13 start, 2026 heralds the most radical technical reset in modern F1 history."]