Franco Colapint and Alpine, far in the sprint of the Belgium GP
The Argentine started from boxes and failed to advance any position in the 15 laps that the short race had. Pierre Gasly, his partner, closed a forgettable race for the French team.
The news of the Alpine team is very poor. To show a button, although in the case of the EscuderÃa de Estone it is an entire merchandise. The problems of reliability in the A525 and the samples of internal disorder accumulate. The brake discs that had to change in Franco Colapinto car in full Canadian grid, the gearbox that did not leave the Argentine in Great Britain (had already suffered the problem in the qualy of Spain) and, this Saturday, the water leak in the left radiator of Pierre Gasly in full departure grid of the sprint of Belgium, 13th appointment, they mark the present. Flavio Briatore. The context is bad, there is no doubt, but it also does not hide the lazy moment that the Argentine pilot lives.
The team decided to break the closed park with the Argentine car to make aerodynamic modifications in search of higher speed in the spa-Francorchamps layout. The engineers opted for a rear wing with less load that would grant a better performance on the lines. Finally, the two blue and pink cars had to leave from Pits for the problem of Gasly. The Frenchman could just get out after two laps and made a handful of turns to try things in the A525 before the qualy and was definitely kept.
Colapinto was the only pilot who turned with soft tires, an Alpine bet that seemed dared by wear. The rhythm of the Argentine was bad, with very high times. In fact, he was 15 times in the 19th position and off the track. It was the slowest pilot, because even Gasly, after the repair of the radiator, He turned in a faster rhythm than Franco. The Buenos Aires got his best time in the last lap, with 1M47S944, which left him two seconds from the Norris record already 293 thousandths of the best Gasly turn, the second slowest of the day.
The panorama for the rest of the weekend does not appear as very encouraging for Colapinto and Alpine. The classification for Sunday’s long race remains this Saturday. Precisely for the last day of the Belgian GP, rain is expected, perhaps the best thing that could happen for Colapinto. Because Gasly took some speed in the qualy for the sprint when she reached the last segment and be eighth. Then, yes, pray because cars can leave boxes.
