Franco Colapinto: “It goes for going fast, worse would be slow and not crashing”
The Argentine pilot spoke after the blow he suffered with his Alpine during the classification of the Azerbaijan GP, 17th F1 date.
Franco Colapinto got off his damaged Alpine and tried to discharge his frustration with a kick to one of the containment barriers of the fateful curve seven. There, the hopes of the Estone team to get into Q2 were finished: while the Argentine crashed into the wall, his partner Pierre Gasly tried to get his A525 out of the escapeafter suffering a mistake. For the Buenos Aires it was a bad closure of one day that had begun well, with a change in the tuning of his car that benefited him from the third training. After a first day of very little aerodynamic load, the engineers opted to go more loaded, resign some velocity in a relaxation, but more balance in the locked. That allowed an improvement in the Argentine walk, until the blow came.
Franco appeared at the press corralito to talk to the media and the anger was noticed. Williams’s expilot stopped Before the AM850 microphone And he explained that Gasly’s dismissal in the seventh curve generates confusion. “There was a flag, but I didn’t know if it was yellow or white and when Gasly left, I stopped an more tad and suddenly the car turned to me. I was a bit of him deconcentrated. Pierre was in the escape and I couldn’t go on that side. I thought I was going to turn back or something. A pity that happened to the two cars, ”said Colapinto.
Franco continued to describe what happened at that moment of the Q1: “It was the time to risk, but it is unpredictable when there are wind bursts of 80 km/h .. and when I folded the curve it turned back. I don’t know if there was wind or something. Everything very rare, it came in a good round, going down three tenths, plus the two that I lost by touching the wall in the first part. I am a little sad because I had no rhythm for Q3, but go to Q2 sure. A complicated circuit for us and it was what he had. You have to understand what happened because it was a bit weird. You have to focus on what is coming, ”said Colapint.
Then, he told the changes that were made in the A525 for the second day of activity: “I was much faster and I am happy with what we changed in the car, but when there is wind in these cars, the chance of these things grows. It is a shame what happened with the car, but it happens to go fast, worse it would be slow and not crash. There are areas that we must progress as a team, but of the last four classifications, in three I was very firm,” the Argentine closedwho will leave 16th in this Sunday’s race.
