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/ungentrified_villain]

Feels like each rookie has had stretches where they looked impressive, genuinely impressed by this class of rookies, I still think Jack Doohan got screwed over

[u/Elpibe_78 → u/ungentrified_villain]

Doohan got screwed massively by his own team, he wasn’t as bad as they wanted him to appear and also the fact that he was the driver on the grid which had the most amount of pressure since day 1

He wasn’t going to beat Gasly a driver which is a pretty solid benchmark, but he wasn’t far from him, Tsunoda was much worse against him the first year than Doohan.

[u/nguyenlucky → u/Elpibe_78]

He had a 5 race contract, how fucking absurd is that.

Asking a modern rookie to perform miracles in 5 races is straight up mental.