Gabriel Bortoleto has finished eleventh five times in 2026: at Monaco, Barcelona, Austria, Hungary and Monza. Each time he was the first driver outside the points.
The points he has scored came in bursts: ninth in Melbourne on Audi's debut, eighth at Silverstone and eighth again at Spa, and eighth in Mexico City from 13th on the grid, the week before his home race. He has 14, fourteenth in the championship, in the first season of Audi as a full works team building its own engine. The rookie of 2025, who scored 19 points for Sauber, is now the team's lead scorer.
