Franco Colapinto prepares to face a new date of the highest category of motoring. This Saturday the Argentine will seek to have a good performance in the classification – from 11 hours local – to have a good starting position of the Sunday race in the Austria GP, where he will seek to add his first points of the season.
At the beginning of the weekend, the Argentine was 16th, 20th and 19th during the three free practices prior to the classification. “It was not very good. I didn’t feel very comfortable in general,” The pilot said after Friday’s second round, which left him with sensations found aboard an A525 Alpine that does not seem to offer improvements to his pilots.
Franco Colapinto will face the classification for Austria GP
Colapint will face – this Saturday – a new classification day in search of achieving a good result and having a good exit position in Sunday’s race, to add its first points from its return to Formula 1. In recent days, after some rumors, Flavio Briatore, executive advisor to the French team, reaffirmed the continuity of the pillare aboard the pink car: “Franco will run as long as necessary.
In this way, and with total support of who seems to be outlined as his godfather in the F1, Colapinto faced the free practices of Austria GP, a circuit that knows very well and where ended in 2nd place in the 2024 season of the F2, A performance that was key to later promotion to the highest category aboard the Williams.
During the FP1, Colapinto was 16 ° to 1,222 seconds of leader George Russell (Mercedes Benz) at the beginning of the weekend that left good feelings. However, the second round of free practices saw it be located 20 ° – to 1,596 of Lando Norris (McLaren) with a A525 car performance that generated concerns in both drivers of the French team.
“It was not very good, I did not feel very comfortable in general. In fast curves, more than anything, which is a bit my strong, I was not very comfortable with the car. A very different balance of one curve to the other. Nothing, you have to work to become a little stronger tomorrow “, The Argentine detailed about the performance on the track.
“The rest improved, it is generally costing those curves a little faster that you have to put a brake, steering wheel and Have confidence in the car and I am not having it. You have to work, but I think that in general there are a couple of things to learn“Colapinto added.
The return of his partner, the Frenchman Pierre Gasly, was more optimistic although he also sowed doubts about the performance of the car that, already on date 11, does not find his best version and seems to outline the team to abandon the idea of making a good season in 2025 to focus fully on the development of the 2026 car, where he will have an important change when adopting the Mercedes Benz engine. “A little more work in the career rhythm, but they are training. We try some things and I think we have good ideas about what worked and what does not,” said the Frenchman.
When Franco Colapinto runs in the Austria GP
Friday June 27
- Free practices 1: 8.30 to 9.30 am – Finished –
- Free practices 2: 12.00 to 13.00 hours – Finished –
Saturday June 28
- Free practices 3: 7.30 to 8.30 am – FINALIZED –
- Classification: 11.00 to 12.00
Sunday June 29
Where to see Franco Colapinto in the GP of Austria:
The race can be seen live in Argentina through Fox Sports. Followers can tune the event in the following channels:
- Channels 25 (SD) and 106 (HD) of Flow
- Channels 605 (SD) and 1605 (HD) of DIRECTV
- Channels 101 (SD) and 1013 (HD) of Teecenter
In turn, online it can be followed by Disney+, the streaming service offered by ESPN or accessing Fox Sports through Telecentro Play, D Go and Flow.
The complete collapint calendar in the 2025 season of the F1
- Austrian Grand Prix | Red Bull Ring – Spielberg: June 27 to 29
- United Kingdom Grand Prix | Silverstone: July 4 to 6
- Belgium Grand Prix | Spa-Francorchamps: July 25 to 27
- Hungary Grand Prix | Budapest: August 1 to 3
- Grand Prize of Netherlands | Zandvoort: August 29
- Italy Grand Prix | Monza: September 5 to 7
- Azerbaijan Grand Prix | Bakú: September 19 to 21
- Singapore Grand Prix | Singapore: October 3 to 5
- United States Grand Prix | Austin: October 17 to 19
- Grand Prix of Mexico | Mexico City: October 24 to 26
- Grand Prix of Brazil | San Pablo: November 7 to 9
- United States Grand Prix | Las Vegas: November 20 to 22
- Qatar Grand Prix | Portugueil: November 28 to 30
- ABU Dhabi Grand Prix | Yas Marina: December 5 to 7
Source: Ambito
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