{"id":900013,"date":"2026-09-21T11:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900013\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:28:09","slug":"formula-1-news-bortoleto-admits-growing-fear-of-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900013\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1 News: Bortoleto admits growing fear of flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(GMM) Gabriel Bortoleto (pictured) says one of the less glamorous parts of Formula 1 is becoming increasingly difficult for him \u2013 flying around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazzetta.it\/Formula-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">La Gazzetta dello Sport<\/a>, the Audi driver described his relationship with travel as \u201clove and hate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove because being an F1 driver allows me to discover new places, visit beautiful places, travel the world,\u201d said the Brazilian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHate because\u2026 I don\u2019t like flying, and with every year that goes by I\u2019m a little more afraid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bortoleto, 21, said he used to fall asleep almost immediately after boarding. \u201cNow, before relaxing, I wait for takeoff, check that everything\u2019s ok, that the turbulence is over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, if everything goes well, I can sleep, or I watch some TV series to pass the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Away from racing, his idea of a perfect weekend is much simpler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStay home, sleep, eat a nice steak, rest. Stop,\u201d Bortoleto smiled.<\/p>\n<p>Bortoleto also made clear where he sees his long-term future.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about his biggest remaining dream, he replied simply: \u201cWinning the World Championship with Audi.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(GMM) Gabriel Bortoleto (pictured) says one of the less glamorous parts of Formula 1 is becoming increasingly difficult&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-900013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900013","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=900013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}