The Argentine pilot of the French team Alpine, Franco Colapintcould not complete the first classification of the Grand Prix of Spain of the Formula 1 because he could not go to his car when leaving boxes and said it was “some of the box or clutch.”
The weekend in Barcelona is not sitting at all well to the Pilarense who, at the beginning, He had three very poor free practices ending last in two and seventeenth in the third.
Therefore, Collapint He bet to redeem his image in this Saturday’s classification to define Sunday’s departure grid in the main race.
However, although he had been making a promising classification, the Argentine had to leave because his car did not start and will start nineteenth on Sunday. On this disappointing situation, Colapinto analyzed: “It was something of the box or clutch, I don’t know well what happened but nothing is a shame when this leaves you without the possibility of fighting in the qualy, more in the Q1”.
“I think we had a good pace, I was strong. I think I was ninth before my last start and I still had a lot to improve so a penalty. A little sad because it was a good opportunity to focus on tomorrow now but nothing, I think it was a good job after yesterday that we did not have that potential in the car. We worked well at night and today we took it forward. A pity what happened”the Pilarense added.
Flavio Briatore supported Franco Colapinto after some criticism: “We need to wait before judging it”
After Franco Colapint He will not achieve a good free practice during this Friday, due to problems in his car, within the framework of the Grand Prix of Spain of the Formula 1the team leader Alpine, Flavio Briatore He said the Argentine “still needs more time before judging it.”
Previously, the Pilarense had managed to end in the sixteenth place in the Imola and Tenthoger Grand Prix during the Monaco Grand Prix.
Given this, and the constant pressures on the performance of Colapinto, Briatore assured, in a press conference, that it is impossible to evaluate a pilot having only two races: “We need to wait a second before judging Franco, we will see how this weekend is doing, we need to evaluate the complete race, at least one.”
“I say it because Montecarlo, although it is very special for everyone, was defined in the classification, where we made many mistakes,” the Italian reflected.
Source: Ambito
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