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Gabriel Bortoleto & José Manuel López Norris’s former performance engineer, who had already overseen Bortoleto in F2 through McLaren’s junior programme.
Since his 2025 debut[1] 2 seasons Gabriel Bortoleto’s driver profile →
Results Together Since his 2025 debut. Grand Prix starts only.
2026 season Championship position and points include sprints.
Driver career Since 2025, with every team and engineer.
Up to round 17, Singapore Grand Prix (2026-10-11).[2]
On the radio Bahrain Grand Prix (held at Sepang), 2026 · Blocked by a slowing Hamilton at the Turn 9 hairpin in practice. Bortoleto What the **** is this guy doing man?
López He's on a cooldown lap.
Bortoleto I know, but he sees me coming and he just keeps blocking.
Transcript as published[3]
Race engineer José Manuel López Spanish
Gabriel Bortoleto's race engineer at Audi.[4]
Education Studied at TU Delft for a period; his Wikipedia page lists Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.[4] [5]
Career 2016–19 Haas, one of the team’s first employees, working with Esteban Gutiérrez and Kevin Magnussen.[6] [7] 2020–23 McLaren: Lando Norris’s performance engineer, deputising as his race engineer in 2023.[6] [1] 2024 Head of McLaren’s test and driver development team, overseeing Bortoleto in F2.[6] [1] 2025– Race engineer to Bortoleto: his first permanent race-engineer role.[1] Previously engineered This is their first F1 race-engineer pairing.
Performance engineer Not publicly confirmed Audi has not named this engineer, and no reliable outlet has reported who it is.
Engineering lead at Audi Alex Chan Head of race engineering[8]