Gabriel Bortoleto’s first home Grand Prix in Brazil didn’t even last a single lap.

The young Brazilian prospect had hoped to make up for a violent crash on the final lap of the sprint, but his car was left completely wrecked, preventing him from even taking part in qualifying as repairs would have taken too long to get him back on track.

However, his home Grand Prix didn’t even last a lap, after being squeezed by Lance Stroll, forced onto the grass, and then hitting the barriers again — albeit far less violently than in the previous day’s incident.

Speaking to the media after the race, Bortoleto admitted: "Tough weekend. A weekend to forget and move on. I just take the positives that my whole country was here supporting me, the Brazilians."

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The Brazilian was keen to take responsibility for a weekend largely derailed by the heavy sprint race crash, which ended up shaping the rest of his race weekend.

"I'm just sad because I have not been able to race today and show a bit of the pace that I believe we had. It comes from me, from my incident in the sprint race that caused me to not do quali. So I'm going to be the first one harsh on myself here."

"I believe it's a consequence of things that happened earlier in the weekend. Obviously it's more painful because it's my home race, but it's just another weekend. We had so many good ones, we had bad ones as well."

He finally added: "There's nothing I can do about it. I just need to move on, analyse things and learn from my mistakes and go for the next one."

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