Gabriel Bortoleto has told outspoken F1 rivals to accept the current regulations after energy management fears at Silverstone.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Owing to the 50:50 power output between the Internal Combustion Engine and the battery systems in 2026, there were fears at Silverstone from the exit of Luffield and to Stowe, the long flat-blast through Copse, Maggots, Becketts, and along the Hangar Straight would deplete the batteries and reduce top speeds.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The fears were not as bad as expected, but some drivers have been fiercely critical of the 50:50 regulation, which is to change across 2027 and 2028 to end with a 60:40 split in favour of the ICE.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Bortoleto, who finished eighth to bank Audi’s first points since ninth in the season-opening Australian GP at Silverstone, reflected afterwards that drivers needed to “turn a page” and accept and “adapt” to the current product.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I don’t think you’ve lost the magic of the sport, we are still driving f***ing quick through Copse, at 280kph and I am still lifting to do that corner,” Bortoleto told media, including RacingNews365.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“It is not easy flat, and you’re not using the grip that we have, and last year was a different [rules] concept, but I think we should turn a page.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“These are the regulations that we are living in right now, and if there are still people complaining about it, just move the page; these are the regulations we’ve got until 2030.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“And then in 2030, when we go to the new regulations, we will talk about it again, but we cannot spend three years talking about the same people every time.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Because it is what we have, the cars are still fun to drive, it is different, and we need to adapt to that, and it is life.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gabriel Bortoleto has told outspoken F1 rivals to accept the current regulations after energy management fears at Silverstone.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-785470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}