Ex-F1 driver Rubeᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚns Barrichello believes 2025 Sauber driver Gabriel Bortoleto will be under “a lot of pressure” during his rookie camඣpaign.

Bortoleto completes Sauber’s F1 dꦯriver line-up for the 2025⛦ campaign alongside Nico Hulkenberg.

The♕ 20-year-old is the first Brazilian on the F1 grid since Feli⭕pe Massa in 2017.

With a long, rich history of Brazilians in the sport with world champions such as Nelson Piquet, Emerson Fittipaldi and Ayrton Senna, while Barrichello and Mass♛a were multiple race winners, the pressure will be on Bortoleto.

Speaking on the Beyond the Grid podcast, Barrichello offered his ꩲview on Bortoleto ahead of his F1 debut next year.

“I do rate him for sure,” Barrichello said. “Right now it’s not a question of his dr๊iving ability. It’s to see how well he’s prepared to deliver.

“Right now, ever🥂ything is lovely. People look at you differently, the paddock is watching you and the behaviour right now is just fun.

“But he is a very good driver, we just have to see how he develops on mind management, on how he manage♛s things because it’s going to be a lot of pressure.

“He’s the next one, for a very long time we didn’t have [a Brazilian drive𒀰r] so a lot of expectations from the public so we have to see.”

Barrichello enjoyed a gr🅰eat career, spanning between 1993 and 2011.

He gave Bortoleto the following advice: “Get to know 💎yourself. That’s the best advice I could give him right now.

ꩵ“We don’t have to get angry or feel bad about the bad times. The bad times exist for us to be better.

“It would have been boriꦯng if we didn’t have that, you would have won all the races and you don’t know what’s the value of act🔯ually going through and winning a race.”