Franco Colapinto: “It makes me angry to have bad luck”

The Argentine driver was tenth in a race in which he shone conductively, but he left dissatisfied because he wanted more.

Franco Colapinto had just completed his best driving performance in his 28 races in Formula 1, but he was not happy. And it’s not bad. You always have to want a little more and the Argentine felt that luck was not on his side in the Chinese GP and that the final tenth place, which meant his first point with Alpine, had little flavor.

“Obviously it was good to have scored points, but sad to have scored by luck due to the problem of Max (Verstappen, who abandoned with his Red Bull). Because if not, I would not have scored. It is not positive to have been behind slower cars, I had a lot of graining, damage to the floor, the right rear part was completely broken. It had a big hole in the floor. I was very unlucky, not because of the contact with Esteban (Ocon), who asked me for forgiveness, everything is fine. It’s starting with a different strategy, a very good start, I pass a lot, I’m ahead and then they put a safety car in place for a car that stays stationary. In Australia we needed a safety car and they put virtual for a car catching on fire and here they put it for anything. It makes me angry that I have bad luck, that every time I am about to do something good there is something that stops me. It was one of the best races, doing all the laps, starting with harder rubber and making a lot of progress, only to have it all go away later. It is what it is, you have to look for performance, the graining with medium rubber on the sides was a disaster,” said the Argentine.

The Argentine continued with his story and in that lack of luck he also put into the classification, in which he was left out of Q3 by only five thousandths. “I gave it my all and when things don’t work out I get angry. Yesterday in qualifying it was the same, but it’s part of F1.” Then he made reference to the owner with Carlos Sainz in the final part, whom he finally could not catch to finish ninth: “With Carlos I was so excited that he beat me, I wanted to go all out, and I was going to make a mistake and end up both of us. Luckily I didn’t do it. It is what it is, we are going to Japan, a track I don’t know, hopefully with a better car to be further ahead and closer to Pierre,” he concluded.