Franco Colapint will start in position 10 in the Canada Grand Prix of the Formula 1in what was his best classification of the year with Alpinewhile the first place in the classification was agonically in the hands of the British George Russellfirst pilot of Mercedes.
After some first practices in the last places, the Buenos Aires flew in the qualy where he exceeded the Q1 with a turn of 1: 12.234 and was very close to overcoming The second round at the end of 12, although two places will advance After the penalty of ten positions he received Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull) for violating a red flag on the FP3, and another of three for Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls) for preventing the passage to Spanish Carlos Sainz (Williams).
Colapint’s partner in Alpine, the Frenchman Pierre Gaslyended last and eliminated from the first classification, after a suspension by an incident in the Williams of the Thai Alex Albonand then he could not get benefit from his fast return due to traffic on the Gilles Villeneuve circuit in Montreal.
In his fourth career in the French team, The native of Pilar finally found the rhythm he wanted in an irregular car and achieved the best position of the year in an Alpine classification. In a Q1 where everyone surprised, marked the 10th best record of this batch with 1: 12.234 and advanced to Q2.
Colapinto, emboldened for his best day in Canada, went out to Q2 wanting to take another step in the Northern Giant. However, with a turn of 1: 12,142, it was only 0.139 of the time of French Hadjar, which was the cut registration to pass to Q3. Anyway, that turn was faster in its weekend even though it lost some thousandths in the final meters of the layout.
Meanwhile, The pole went to the British George Russellwith Mercedes, which closed with a 1: 10,899 turn in the final seconds of the Q3 to seize the first place of the grid in Sunday’s race (70 laps). Max Verstappen will start second, while the other places will be for the McLaren of Oscar Piastri (championship pointer), Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari), Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin), Lando Norris (McLaren), Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), Isack hadjar (Racing Bulls) and Alex Albon (Williams).
It should be remembered that in the first free practice the Argentine had made a time of 1: 14,645, to 0.828 of Gasly, and a 18th place in the FP2 (1: 13,898), to 1,024 from his Alpine partner that was 12 °. The Argentine was last in the second practice, since Charles Leclerc and Lance Stroll did not register times for different inconveniences.
This Sunday’s career will begin at 15 in our country and will have live broadcast of Fox Sports and Disney+ Premium. The McLaren lead the championship: Piastri has 186 points and Norris escorts it with 10 units less, while the third place is from Verstappen (137) and fourth is Russell (111).
Source: Ambito
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