The Buenos Aires driver’s car spun in turn 1 and was left off the track, a situation that he could not overcome.
The Argentine pilot Franco Colapinto had a day to forgetsince he suffered a new mishap in the Saudi Arabia GP for Formula 2 that forced him to abandon the race.
When he was averaging lap 15 – in total there are 28 – and was in eleventh place, the Argentine, who at the beginning of the course had broken the front wing of his car when colliding with the Spaniard Pepe Martí, brushed against a wall after taking a curve. , damaged its suspension and complicated its braking with a flat tire.
The Buenos Aires driver’s car spun in turn 1 and was left off the track, a situation that he could not overcome. Immediately after the car started, the safety car was present on the track until the race was regularized.
A few seconds later, the official broadcast cameras captured the lament of a Colapinto who had finished eleventh in the short race at the Jeddah circuit, while in the first GP of the year (Bahrain) he finished eighteenth in the short race and sixth in the long run, adding eight points that kept him in ninth place in the drivers’ standings.
His MP Motorsport teammate, the Norwegian Dennis Hauger, started first in the short race and remained on the podium with a third place in the long race. In Saudi territory, the first in the second round was the Brazilian Enzo Fittipaldi, while the Indian Kush Maini finished second.
Colapinto had already had problems in qualifying. He suffered an accident during the first minutes of qualifying and ended up conditioned.
After stopping for a few minutes in the pits to check his car after hitting the wall, the MP Motorsports man was able to be part of the field and ended up coming back to settle in thirteenth place.
After that episode, he declared on Fox Sports: “A shame. I’m really hot, to be honest. I hit the wall very hard on the first lap. I had been doing a good lap, but I think because I’m not also used to street circuits …I only raced in Monaco, it’s the first fast street circuit.”
Formula 2 will return to activity on the weekend of March 23 with the Australian GP and there will be an extended stoppage of almost two months because it will return on May 18 at the legendary Italian track of Imola and on the 25th of the same month it will be run. in Monaco.
Source: Ambito
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