Franco Colapinto, to AM850.com: “Spend cars will be impossible, the strategy has to be good”

The Argentine pilot spoke after being last in the classification of the GP of Monaco, eighth date of the World Cup, and explained the shortcomings of the Alpine that Pierre Gasly also suffered.

He shows it quiet, heated. The Monegasca afternoon sun shows him in the press zone in which Franco Colapinto talks to the media, among which is AM850.com. In his right hand, a sekelite, of which he takes with a manguerite. It transpires, and it is not for less with the black Fo -Siptic shirt that is placed. He had already fulfilled the requisition of TV and English -speaking journalists, until he stops the Spanish -speaking. There is neither annoyance or frustration. In the background screens it is seen that the Q2 stands with a red flag because George Russell has just left his Mercedes in the tunnel. The Argentine will turn around to spy on the monitor. The first thing he does is explain why the team stayed with the two cars outside the Q1.

“It usually cost us a lot this weekend with the soft rubber. In general I became very difficult to handle it, it overheats a lot. I always felt more comfortable with the average, I made a not very clean round with the average and it was almost as fast as with the soft one. Rare, things to analyze and understand”Franco says.

Of course, Alpine expected another walk in the Urban Monegasco. “It was not the weekend we expected, we imagined a better and more competitive day. But the car is not giving us the confidence to push. In the curve five we skate a lot in the traction, we do not go well from the slow curves. We did not put the car in the right window, it goes well, but here we did not find the right balance. It is costing us in general, it cost me to get around. With the middle rubber it was much easier and with the soft it does not come out. ”

Already with the result of the qualy on, it only remains to think about the 78 laps of the race on a very complicated track to exceed cars. “There is a lot to work. Hopefully the race is better than classification, but you have to work. There are many strategies and one will be better than another. Pass cars will be impossible, so the strategy has to be good ”, Close. And he leaves, end of Saturday for Colapinto. He will still have a long meeting with the engineers before going home, because Franco lives in Monaco.