He Grand Prix of Saudi Arabia He left Alpine in a borderline situation. The French team, with a bad campaign at the moment, accumulates more than 4 million dollars in losses due to errors of your pilots.
Without the presence of Franco Colapint as main pilot, Alpine Ante last march in the championship of Formula 1: He added just a point in five races.
In Jeddah, the French Pierre Gasly He did not complete a return: he was hit by the Japanese Yuki Tsunoda And he had to leave the race. This represented a direct loss of 820 thousand dollars in the car repair, but the most expensive thing was what could not be obtained: the pilot started ninth and had serious chances of adding points (each is worth 460 thousand dollars for the team).
At least, Alpine The possibility of winning was lost 960 thousand dollars further.
For its part, the Australian Jack Doohan He disappointed again: he finished seventeenth and was unable to climb positions. With his bad results and driving errors, the young pilot already generated a loss to Alpine some 2.6 million dollars So far from the championship.
In total, Alpine accumulates $ 480,000 only in damage, lost points and strategic failures. With just one point in five major awards, the French team is in a critical situation, both sports and economically.
With this present, the pressure grows so that the Argentine Franco Colapintcurrent reserve pilot, occupy the place of Doohan. This brings opinions divided into the team since the team leader OLIVER OKES wants to keep the Australian, while the executive advisor Flavio Briatore He wants Pilarense on track as soon as possible.
The situation favors Briatore, especially for the commercial links that have been formed among the sponsors of Collapint and those of Alpine. Unlike Doohan, The Argentine not only provides proven performance for his experience in Williams, It also represents income.
Sources close to the pilot’s environment ensure that Collapint I could debut as the main pilot already in the Miami Grand Prix (The weekend of May 4), although The Race indicates that the team could wait Until July or Augustafter racing in Hungary either Netherlands.
Source: Ambito
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