F1: Franco Colapinto will leave the Canada GP tenth
To the sanction of Yuki Tsunoda, another one for Isack Hadjar was added and the Argentine will advance two stalls in the grid to leave in the points of Points in Montreal.
As soon as he closed his passage through the classification, Franco Colapinto had already won a place in the Canada GP, tenth appointment of F1 2025. The Argentine finished 12th in La Qualy de Montreal, his best result since he was anointed as head of Alpine. But his starting drawer immediately became 11th due to the sanction that Yuki Tsunoda had received in the third training by not respecting the red flag. The FIA punished the Japanese of Red Bull strong: ten places in the grid. The former Racing Bull was 11 in the batch and must occupy the last drawer this Sunday.
Colapinto, and all the rest of the F1 was very clear that the assembly of the grid was not yet defined. There was a pending investigation for an Isack Hadja maneuverR at the end of Q1: he clearly covered the return to Carlos Sainz, who did not remain without chances of advancing to Q2 in the semi -permanent Gilles Villeneuve.
The sports commissioners cited Sainz and Hadjar, listened to them and finally made the decision. Racing Bull’s French acknowledged that he had hindered Williams’s Spanish and that he had seen him by the mirrors, but that I trust the information that the team had provided that the Madrid was not on the return launched. Noting that the data was wrong, tried to run, but it was already late. As a result, the Frenchman was sanctioned with three positions in the grid and lost the ninth place he had obtained in Qualy (he will leave 12).
Thus, finally the Argentine pilot will complete the fifth row and start tenth, sharing the row with its former team Alex Albon. It will be the second best starting position of Colapint in 13 races in F1, only surpassed by the eighth place from which the Azerbaijan GP began last year with the Grove team. In this way, the Alpine pilot will begin the competition already installed in the points zone.
