Flavio Briatore advanced the place Franco Colapinto will have in Icola
The executive advisor of the Alpine team spoke before the GP of Miami, sixth F1 date, about the role of the Argentine for the appointment of Emilia-Romagna.
Going away from rumors born in hysteria for scoop can be the best possible partner these days. Some generate noise just to get up with the protagonist, others to generate some clicks and others for pure operation. In recent days a version arose that places Franco Colapinto in the Alpine of Jack Doohan armchair in the Emilia-Romagna GP, which will be played next 18. This rumor gained special strength after the YPF CEO said “Icola”, after an interview and when he did not realize that his microphone was on despite not being on the air on the A24 screen. Horacio Marín, the Pope of the oil company that is a sponsor of the Argentine pilot, a while later went out to the crossroads of the indiscreet microphone that played a bad pass and assured that it was a personal desire, but had no information.
Of course, the subject was installed. And in the middle of all the noise came the GP of Miami, sixth appointment of the 76th season of Formula 1.Liver Oakes, director of Alpine, had to answer at a press conference who would be the team’s pilots in Icola and said: “Jack is our pilot and so will continue.” A while after joint attention with the press, the English spoke with AM850 and said: “I know about the interview with the CEO of an Argentine company, which Franco could possibly be in Isola, that Argentines want to have it on the track. As a team we know that Jack and Pierre are the pilots and there are two replacement options, which are Franco and Paul. They will surely have their opportunity, but as a team, we now have two pilots. ”
In the work on the Miamense track, Doohan suffered with an error of the team in the sprint of the sprint that complicated him. But in the classification for the main race, he managed to beat his partner Pierre Gasly for the first time. The Australian got into Q2 (it was 14), while the experienced French stayed in Q1 with a very lazy performance of his A525. So lazy, that the Team decided to get it out of the grid and leave from boxes to be able to break the closed park and put a hand in the order of the car.
Nor after achieving a better performance than Gasly in the classification Doohan had, because the noise about its permanence in Alpine came from France. The journalist Julien Labreau of the French chain Canal+ said on Miami’s Saturday: “The information we have collected suggests that Jack Doohan will be replaced from the Imola Grand Prix. The information is yet to be confirmed, but the trend becomes increasingly pressing day after day, hour after time. ”
The last link of the chain that spoke was Flavio Briatore, the executive advisor of Alpine and strong man of the team. First, he talked about Doohan’s work in the classification, in which he was ahead of Gasly: ”Jack was very good yesterday, because his machine was going well. In the fast curves, the car is fast. But in the slow engine the help of the engine is missing.” But, of course, the consultation was direct: Franco Colapint will be as head of Alpine in the next race? “His answer was clear:” For Icola will be reserve, reserve, reserve. “
Is it something definitive? Any possible change that a team thinks or analyzed would not announce it an hour before the start of a race and in which that pilot who is in dance must play 305 kilometers about an F1. And you can’t leave another fact: In the middle is the ineffable Briatore, the same one who ordered a pilot from his team in Singapore 2008 to take strategic advantage. The Briatore world is open to any game, clean or dirty.
