The Argentine pilot of the French team Alpine, Franco Colapinthad a start without problems in the Grand Prize of Spain of Formula 1. The triumph was for the Australian and leader of the championship, Oscar Piastri (McLaren)while the podium was completed by the British Lando Norris (McLaren) and the Monegasco Charles Leclerc (Ferrari).
Franco Colapinto ended in the 15th position at the Grand Prix of Spain
The race was complicated for Colapinto, which started in position 18, after the car kept in the classification. During the beginning he climbed some positions for the stops in boxes of other rivals, but when he put half rubber lost a lot of rhythm, he fell to the last position and became half a minute of the penultimate.
However, on the end there was a Safety Car for the abandonment of Italian Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes), which allowed him to approach the last platoon and overcome the French Esteban Ocon (Haas) to finish sixteenth.
The Argentine suffered this weekend in Spain from beginning to end. This is because on Friday it ended last both in free practices 1 and in the second training session.
In addition, on Saturday he had shown a slight improvement in free practices 3, but in the classification he finished nineteenth due to problems in his car that did not allow him to go in search of more.
Formula 1: Oscar Piastri won and stretched the advantage in the championship.
The Australian Oscar Piastri, who on Saturday had achieved the “pole position”, took the victory in the GP of Spain and took 10 points in the championship to his escort and teammate in McLaren, the British Lando Norris, who finished second. The podium was completed by the Monegasco Charles Leclerc, from Ferrari.
The other pilot who aspires to fight for the championship, the Dutch and four times world champion, Max Verstappen (Red Bull), was the victim of his own team’s strategy, which put hard rubber to the exit of the Safety Car in the last laps.
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This made him disadvantage with respect to the rest of the pilots, who had soft, and quickly lost third position. As if this were not enough, he crashed the British George Russell (Mercedes), which made him suffer a penalty of 10 seconds that made him fall to the tenth position.
The next race in the Formula 1 championship will be on Sunday, June 15, when the Canada GP is held.
This was the Formula 1 championship
1- Oscar Piastri (McLaren): 186 points
2- Lando Norris (McLaren): 176 points
3- Max Verstappen (Red Bull): 137 points
4- George Russell (Mercedes): 111 points
5- Charles Leclerc (Ferrari): 94 points
This was Franco Colapinto’s start in the Spain Grand Prix
Source: Ambito
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