Franco Colapinto’s fight with Alpine after the Mexican Formula 1 Grand Prix: “It can’t get worse”

Franco Colapinto’s fight with Alpine after the Mexican Formula 1 Grand Prix: “It can’t get worse”

The Argentine pilot Franco Colapinto demonstrated his disagreement with his performance in the Mexican Grand Prixin which he took his Alpine to the 16th placebelieving that he was “crawling” for fifty laps.

The man from Pilar was especially upset with the strategy chosen by his team, the little grip that the hard tire had and the performance of the Aston Martin rider. Lance Strollwho forced him to leave the circuit on the first lap.

Furthermore, looking ahead to the next Brazilian Grand Prixto be played on Sunday, November 9, Colapinto assured that it will be “a party” and what does it have “I really want to go”considering it their local Grand Prix.

With his usual calm, Franco Colapinto faced the press to review what was a race to be forgotten in the Hermanos Rodríguez Autodromefrom the Mexican capital.

“I crawled 50 laps”the Argentine began to detail, who assured that the hard wheels had no “no grip”in which it was a race “without rhythm and very long”.

His only pit stop came after 50 laps and meant changing to soft tires, with which he considered he performed well, although “I didn’t have time anymore” to have a better race, in a Grand Prix that “It cost a lot as a team”.

With the aforementioned change of compound, Colapinto He left the box in 16th and last position, due to the abandonment of some drivers, but he was much faster than his teammate Pierre Gaslyalthough he could not pass it through the exit of a Virtual Safety Cartwo laps from the end. If it had not been for that, the Pilarense is “100% safe” that he would have overtaken the Frenchman.

In addition to the lack of speed, the 22-year-old driver’s problems came from the beginning, when a mistake Stroll It left him without a track and forced him to put a wheel on the grass, which lost grip and caused him to spin.

About the Canadian, Colapinto was very critical in ensuring that “never look in mirrors” and? “always does the same thing”although he stressed that he was able to quickly recover from the lost time.

Finally, the former pilot of Williams spoke about what will be his “Home Grand Prix” in Brazilon Sunday, November 9, stating that he has “I really want to go” because of the large number of Argentines that there will be, who want “enjoy them and give them a good result”stating, with some irony, that “The good thing is that it can’t get worse.”

Source: Ambito

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