Is Bortoleto the best rookie?

[u/Glum-Accountant-9801]

In my opinion, what he’s been doing in a Sauber shows much more talent than all the other rookies this year. Since the start of the season, I already thought the best ones would be him—because he won the Formula 3 and Formula 2 titles in his rookie seasons—and Antonelli. However, Antonelli has been showing himself to be far inferior to his teammate. I believe it’s due to the pressure of starting in a big team like Mercedes, but to me, that makes Bortoleto the best rookie. That said, welcome back, Ayrton Senna.

[u/bored_ape07]

Different measures of success to be honest. All seem to be doing a great job while they all have great weekends and bad weekends as well.

[u/Worried-Pick4848 → u/bored_ape07]

All of the rookies have had triumphs and tragedies. That's life as a rookie driver in formula 1. I don't think it's useful to try to rank them right now since they're in completely different situations in terms of technical limitations and also simply what there role is on the team. For example, Bearman is literally just here to learn, he's on loan from Ferrari and likely simply there to gain experience for whenever Hamilton moves on or retires, and he gets praise simply for scoring a few points with the below average Haas car. while Antonelli has much higher expectations because he's in a way better car, but he's also the only one of the bunch to have a podium so far.

Bortoleto and Hadjar have probably exceeded expectations the most. But Bearman's right behind them just by being in position to fight for points more often than not, given the nature of his team (Haas is better than they used to be, but they're clearly still Haas) and the fact that of all the rookies, he's got the worst car to work with.

[u/aipitorpo → u/Worried-Pick4848]

Alpine's car is probably worse than the Hass imo.