{"id":136919,"date":"2025-05-27T21:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/136919\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T21:28:08","slug":"f1-driver-receives-put-him-in-the-wall-next-time-threat-after-monaco-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/136919\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 driver receives ‘put him in the wall next time’ threat after Monaco incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

Untelevised team radio footage from the Monaco Grand Prix has uncovered the moment Gabriel Bortoleto threatened to \u201cput him in the wall next time\u201d after his clash with Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sauber rookie Bortoleto crashed on the opening lap of the Monaco Grand Prix, spearing into the wall at Portier.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Bortoleto: \u2018I\u2019ll put him in the wall next time\u2019<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Thomas Maher<\/p>\n

It came after Antonelli, keen to recover from a mistake in qualifying that left him 15th on the grid, made a move down Bortoleto\u2019s inside at the tricky right hander, moments after he was passed by the Sauber at the hairpin.<\/p>\n

With the pair avoiding contact in the incident, Antonelli was not penalised by the stewards and went on to finish 18th, his worst classified result of the F1 2025 season so far, with Bortoleto coming home 14th.<\/p>\n

An untelevised clip from the Monaco Grand Prix has unearthed the moment Bortoleto described Antonelli\u2019s move as \u201cdesperate\u201d before threatening to \u201cput him in the wall\u201d the next time they came together on track.<\/p>\n

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The full exchange between Bortoleto and his race engineer in the immediate aftermath of the Sauber driver\u2019s contact with the wall went as follows:<\/p>\n

Engineer:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cCan you reverse?\u201d<\/p>\n

Bortoleto:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cI am OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

Engineer:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cOK, let\u2019s reverse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bortoleto:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cKimi pushed me off!\u201d<\/p>\n

Bortoleto:<\/strong> \u201cIs the car OK?\u201d<\/p>\n

Engineer:<\/strong> \u201cOur front wing is damaged, front wing is damaged. We are boxing to change the front wing. And we saw what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bortoleto:<\/strong> \u201cF**k it. Antonelli, man! Desperated [sic] kid!\u201d<\/p>\n

Engineer:<\/strong> \u201cNo worries. That was clear on the TV.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later in the race, Bortoleto is seen closing in on Antonelli ahead and asks the Sauber pit wall if the Mercedes driver was punished for the opening-lap incident.<\/p>\n

Bortoleto:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cI think we are catching Antonelli here. Did he get a penalty for what he did?\u201d<\/p>\n

Engineer:<\/strong> \u201cSo, Gabi, we are all on the same train and he did not get a penalty. He did not get a penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bortoleto:<\/strong> \u201cOK. I will put him in the wall next time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Engineer:<\/strong> \u201cGabi! Let\u2019s focus on what we can control. Let\u2019s maximise this scenario.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking to media including PlanetF1.com after the race, Bortoleto described Antonelli\u2019s move as a \u201cdivebomb.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said:\u00a0\u201cWe overtook him into [Turn] 6 and then he tried a divebomb move in T8, where we saw, in the past, there was a lot of accidents already there.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then obviously when you divebomb, you commit for something.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was already committed to the corner as well, because I would never expect someone to divebomb there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ended up trying to still stay on track and expecting that he would give me a bit of room, but he didn\u2019t give any room at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I just ended up hitting the wall to not hit him in the inside. I would [have] end up in the wall anyway.<\/p>\n

\u201cA shame because we broke the front wing and then we lost that advantage of five positions we had at the beginning of the race.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on Gabriel Bortoleto and Andrea Kimi Antonelli from PlanetF1.com<\/p>\n

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Antonelli defended his decision to pass Bortoleto at a section of the track where overtaking is difficult, pointing to the fact that he was ahead of the Sauber at the apex of the corner.<\/p>\n

He told media including PlanetF1.com: \u201cIt was an aggressive move but at the end of the day, I didn\u2019t touch him. And also at the apex, I was ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, you don\u2019t want to see him in the wall and my intention was not to put him in the wall.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut at the end of the day, I didn\u2019t touch him and I tried my best to give him as much space as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, of course, you know, Monaco is very tight and it can happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if he was anxious to repass Bortoleto quickly after initially losing the position at the hairpin, Antonelli admitted that it was crucial for Mercedes\u2019 strategy for him to be close to team-mate George Russell on track.<\/p>\n

And he insisted that his move was not \u201cdirty\u201d as there was no contact between the pair, unlike his clash with McLaren driver Oscar Piastri at the start of the Miami GP sprint race earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Antonelli said: \u201cOf course, I didn\u2019t want to lose the position to him because the goal was trying to stay there with George, especially for our strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then I tried to overtake back, but I didn\u2019t think there was anything outstanding [about it].<\/p>\n

\u201cI really looked at the onboard and I didn\u2019t touch him or anything, so there was nothing outstanding or dirty on that side.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was of course an aggressive move.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I said before, my intention was not for him [to be in the wall], it was just to overtake.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, it\u2019s not nice to see someone in the wall, but at the same time it\u2019s not like Miami that I got touched.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere, I completely didn\u2019t touch him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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