The Belgium Grand Prix had to wait for more than an hour to start the race, since due to the intense rains that fell on the spa-Francorchamps circuit, The organization decided to suspend the start. Once it stopped raining, the pilots turned behind the Safety Car and officially began the competition in Tour Five.
Meanwhile, Franco Colapinto remains thirteenth, and Oscar Piastri He is the new leader of the race.
Regarding the performance of Collapint, The Argentine pilot on Saturday completed his best round in 1: 42,022leaving 0.114 seconds of the minimum time marked by Gabriel Bortoleto already 0.222 of your teammate Pierre Gaslywho got into the Q2 as 11 °. Already in that second batch, the Frenchman signed a turn of 1: 41,633but neither did he advance and will leave from the 13 ° put in the grid.
“When it is a tenth, there are many places to find it. It’s a shame, we were very close. I think we had a better car than yesterday. That tenth was out”, He said Collapint At the end of the classification.
The Pole position It was in the hands of the British Lando Norristhat with his McLaren marked a record of 1: 40,562. Behind him will start Oscar Piastri and Charles Leclerc.
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With a bad exit position, El Pilarense and his team focused on trying More information from a complex carwith the focus on making a good classification: “It served to understand the car a little in the changes we made, obvious. It was useless later because it fell apart after the first round with the soft rubber, ” explained.
Franco Colapinto ended 19 in the Sprint race of the Belgium GP
It is evident that Alpine’s car He did not have a good performance in the season. The French team has all the chips put in the 2026 season, in which there will be an important change of rules in the F1 and, in addition, the team will change its Renault engine for one Mercedes Benz. Thus, those conducted by Flavio Briatore seem to be left behind the weekend, while its competitors have new improvements in their cars.
In this complex scenario, Colapint had a complex weekend start again. The Argentine left Boxes Street in the race 15 laps and, given the difficulty of reaching the dot zone, he and his team concentrated on trying to obtain the most information in the car.
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“It was logical that it was going to be complicated, but I think we learned a couple of things for tomorrow,” described the Pilarense. “We will see now with the data. They wanted to start with soft, so we left with soft … I think, obviously, the race was going to be more complicated,” he concluded.
The complex of Alpine’s situation was also reflected in the performance of Pierre Gasly, a classmate. The Frenchman also left Boxes Street but Two laps afternoons, given that could not solve on time cargo problems. Thus, he finished last with a much slower pace.
The race was monotonous. In 15 laps they only gave a handful of overtaking, which includes the Max Verstappen (Red Bull) to Oscar Piastri (McLaren). Thus, the Dutchman first ended – followed by the Australian and his partner, Lando Norris – and revindicated his performance in the midst of the rumors about his future.
Formula 1: What time does Franco Colapinto run the classification for the Belgium GP
Friday July 25
- Free Practices 1 – Finished
- Sprint classification – finished
Saturday July 26
- Sprint Carrera – Finished
- Classification – 11:00
Sunday, July 27
Formula 1: Where to see Franco Colapinto in the classification for the Belgium GP
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