The head of Alpine referred to present Franco Colapinto in Formula 1 and even questioned his choice to be in the category.
The Italian Flavio Briatorehead of responsible for Alpine, referred to the present Franco Colapint in the Formula 1. The manager compared the Pilarense with another pilot in the category and theorized about the reasons that prevented him from achieving better results. “Maybe it was not time to be in F1”he launched.
“Colapint has the same problem as Kimi (Antonelli) in Mercedes: there is too much pressure. We have to take it into account. They are human beings, they are practically children”considered Briatore.
“Sometimes it is our mistake to underestimate the pilot’s human part. We are always looking at the stopwatch. I might miss something there in the pilot’s management. Maybe it was not the right time to have Franco in Formula 1, maybe I needed one more year to be part of Formula 1”evaluated in statements reproduced by Motorsport.
It should be remembered that Collapint He fought a car without reliability and could not be in a score zone in any of the seven played races. His best positions were two 13th place in the Monaco GP and Canada.
In this regard, Briatore assured: “I think that for a pilot it is very difficult to deal with this car. I am not happy if we look at the results, that is the important thing. He tries very hard. We try very hard with the engineering team to please him in everything, but it really is not what I expect from Collapinto.”
Source: Ambito
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