Despite the problems of the first lap of GP in China, the Brazilian Gabriel Portolito leaves a positive balance when it completes the first functional race in Formula 1.
The SAUBER driver lost control of the car in the initial curves, rode and ended in gravel. Even returning to the path in last place, Gabriel recovered and the race ended in 17th.
After the race, Lewis Hamilton, Charles Licerrick and Pierre Jasli were excluded By changes in your cars. However, Portolo rose to the fourteenth place.
After the end of the race, Gabriel Portolo analyzed the slip in the first lap of GP Da China.
“I went to Oliver Berman, I knew that he was in difficult tires and our strategy was passing cars like this at the beginning. In transgression, I ended up with the dirty part of the track and rode. This was a mistake,” Gabriel Portolo said in an interview with a television band.
Even running at the beginning of the race, the Brazilian pilot regained the rhythm and ended the race in the seventeenth place, a position of advanced on the companion of Sauber Niko Holkonberg.
“We know it is very difficult to register a degree. After I installed, it turned out to be a race to train tire management in Formula 1. I was talking to my engineer and he was guiding me. The race was very good, and I am happy with what I did,” Portolo added.
Puertolo benefits from non -eligibility
Gabriel Portolito finished finishing GP in China in the fourteenth place after excluding Hamilton, Leclerc and Gasly.
Charles Licerrick was excluded from Ferrari, who reached fifth, to finish the race with the weight of the 1kg car below those permitted by the instant regulations 1.
actually Lewis HamiltonLeclerc companion, who finished the race in sixth place, presented excessive erosion on the car plate, and was also eliminated.
Alpine, which was via the eleventh finish line, was also excluded through the weight of the car below the list.
