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Invicta Racing’s Gabriel Bortoleto has been stripped of his FIA Formula 2 podium in Saturday’s Sprint after incurring a five-second time penalty. Bortoleto, a member of McLaren’s Driver Development Programme, was engaged in a race-long fight with Invicta team-mate Kush Maini. The duo’s wheel-to-wheel exchanges were not befitting of two team-mates and the battle came […]
McLaren’s Driver Development Programme member, Bortoleto, engaged in a tense race-long battle with team-mate Kush Maini, resulting in a clash on the final lap and a penalty for Bortoleto. The penalty dropped Bortoleto from third to fourth, giving Maini the podium spot. Bortoleto expressed displeasure with Maini’s aggressive driving tactics during the race and emphasized his own efforts to avoid collisions and take responsibility for mistakes, calling for a discussion between them and the team to ensure fair competition. Bortoleto highlighted the importance of clean racing and expressed confusion as to why teammates would resort to dirty tactics against each other.