Spending a day with an F1 driver becomes less about replicating life in Formula One than discovering how badly two YouTubers perform when pieces of that lifestyle are turned into competitions. Gabriel Bortoleto leads Ethan and Jack through neck training, reaction drills, cardio, padel, a cold plunge, carbonara cooking, and simulator racing, with points deciding who emerges as the day's supposed best Formula One driver. The title promises 24 hours, but the presentation is really a sequence of seven challenges across a day rather than a detailed examination of an F1 driver's full routine. That looser approach works because Bortoleto is not simply the subject of the video; he becomes trainer, teammate, judge, host, and eventually the benchmark they are trying to chase.

The gym section gives the concept its strongest connection to Formula One. Bortoleto demonstrates neck exercises designed around the physical demands drivers experience, and the contrast is immediately funny when Ethan's unexpectedly strong neck earns him the first point. Reaction drills reverse the result, with Jack translating his confidence from gaming into a better performance, before the stationary bike exposes both contestants to a much less glamorous side of athletic preparation. Bortoleto's presence makes these exercises more informative than arbitrary fitness challenges because he explains why neck strength and cardio matter to him as a driver, even though the playful versions shown are not presented as comprehensive tests of F1 fitness.

Padel broadens the episode into the social and recreational side of the day. Rather than simply competing against each other, Ethan and Jack separately partner with Bortoleto against stronger opponents and try to earn at least one point. The setup produces good teamwork and gives Bortoleto another role beyond instructor, particularly as he encourages both players through long rallies and mistakes. Ethan eventually gets the point needed to win the round, but the scoring across the video remains intentionally casual. Half-points, subjective judging, and later a winner-takes-all finale make the scoreboard more of a running joke than a rigorous measure of who actually performs best.

The cold plunge leans even further into personality-driven competition. Ethan enters with experience from having a cold setup at home and lasts more than three minutes, while Jack spends much of his attempt bargaining over whether enough of his body is submerged and insisting he is not struggling. Their commentary makes the sequence entertaining, but some health-related remarks are tossed around without support, including a claim about cold exposure releasing more testosterone. Bortoleto does provide relevant personal context by discussing cooling around races in hot locations and cooling vests, but the segment is primarily a comic endurance contest rather than a useful explanation of recovery science.

Visiting Bortoleto's Monaco home adds the personal access promised by the premise. His trophies provide a natural conversation starter before the pair are challenged to prepare his favorite dish, carbonara. Ethan approaches the task with more confidence and produces the version Bortoleto clearly prefers, while Jack's attempt becomes increasingly associated with an omelette and jokes about cream. The cooking contest has little to do with proving Formula One ability, but it gives the episode a useful change of pace after several physical challenges and allows Bortoleto's preferences and diet-related comments to emerge naturally. The Revolut sponsorship inserted during the ingredient shopping is lengthy enough to interrupt that transition, though using the Monaco shopping trip as its setting at least integrates the promotion into an activity already required by the video.

Simulator racing is the obvious finale and the best place to make the competition decisive. Bortoleto establishes a lap around 1:08.9, then Ethan and Jack receive five laps to get as close as possible. The gap between professional familiarity and beginner confusion becomes the joke: Bortoleto looks controlled while the challengers struggle with braking, shifting, DRS, corners, spins, and simply remembering the track. Ethan's sub-1:20 lap comfortably beats Jack's attempt and earns the trophy. Making the final event winner-takes-all undermines the significance of the earlier scoreboard, but simulator performance is also the challenge most directly connected to the identity they have been pretending to compete for all day, so it provides an appropriately definitive ending.

What makes the episode consistently enjoyable is Bortoleto's willingness to participate in the comedy rather than remain an untouchable professional athlete demonstrating things the hosts cannot do. He jokes about their performances, competes alongside them, judges generously, welcomes them into his home, and offers enough explanation to make the activities feel connected to his life. The video could have gone deeper into what an actual F1 driver's day looks like, and the “24 hours” framing oversells how comprehensively that lifestyle is explored. As a challenge video, however, the variety prevents any single activity from exhausting its joke, while the simulator finale finally puts the amateurs into an environment where Bortoleto's expertise is unmistakable.

Pros

• Neck training, reaction exercises, cardio, and simulator racing give several challenges a clear connection to the physical or technical demands associated with Bortoleto's profession.
• Bortoleto moves naturally between trainer, teammate, host, judge, and racing benchmark, making him an active participant rather than simply a celebrity guest.
• Padel, the cold plunge, cooking, and the Monaco home visit add enough variety to prevent the competition from becoming a repetitive series of fitness tests.
• Simulator racing provides the strongest finale by directly contrasting Bortoleto's controlled benchmark with Ethan and Jack's struggle to complete competitive laps.
• The friendly rivalry between Ethan and Jack keeps even weak performances entertaining without requiring the competition to be taken seriously.

Cons

• The “24 hours with an F1 driver” framing suggests a fuller look at Bortoleto's routine than the seven loosely connected challenges actually provide.
• Scoring is deliberately inconsistent, including half-points and a winner-takes-all finale that makes much of the earlier competition effectively irrelevant.
• The cold-plunge section includes an unsupported health claim about testosterone while otherwise functioning mainly as entertainment rather than an explanation of recovery practices.
• The extended sponsorship during ingredient shopping slows the transition from the physical challenges to the visit at Bortoleto's home.

The day works best when Formula One provides the framework without forcing every activity to become an authentic driver test. Neck exercises expose an unfamiliar physical demand, reaction drills and cardio create straightforward competition, padel and cooking reveal a more relaxed side of Bortoleto, and the simulator finally demonstrates how enormous the gap becomes when the challenge approaches his actual specialty. Ethan winning the trophy after a substantially faster lap gives the chaotic scoreboard a satisfying conclusion, even if making that round winner-takes-all renders earlier points mostly ceremonial. The episode is lighter on genuine day-in-the-life detail than its premise implies, but Bortoleto's easy participation and the constant change of activity make it an entertaining visit to Monaco built around something more achievable than becoming an F1 driver in 24 hours: surviving his challenges without embarrassing yourself too badly.