🏎️ Bearing the load

Twelve points would be a rounding error at McLaren. For Audi, they are the entire ledger of a debut season as a Formula 1 works team — and 10 of them belong to Gabriel Bortoleto, the 21-year-old Brazilian driver only in his second season.

Eleven rounds in, with the sport now on its summer break, Bortoleto sits 14th in the drivers' standings. His scoring days came in Australia, at Silverstone and at Spa-Francorchamps, the last two both eighth places, which stand as the best results in Audi's short history as a constructor. Four other times he has finished 11th, the position that pays nothing and teaches a great deal…

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