Flavio Briatore: “It was a very bad maneuver for a pilot of his experience”

The words of Flavio Briatore They did not wait after the error of Franco Colapinto on the Baku street circuit, which also left his teammate out Pierre Gasly. The Alpine boss is known for having no qualms about making difficult decisions or criticizing his own team. “It was a very bad maneuver for a pilot of his experience”.

The Argentine was coming off one of his best performances in Formula 1, with a creditable seventh place in the Madringwhere he managed to be the best of the rest. But this braking pass at the safety car exit makes Briatore consider how to continue so that it doesn’t happen again. “I want to take some time to reflect on this and consider what measures should be taken, so I can learn from it and avoid a situation like this in the future,” he says in statements reported by Motorsport.

Verstappen, Hadjar or Russell They have already declared that they are against the words of Norris, who was the other victim after the Colapinto accident and said that race sanctions should be granted to the drivers for incidents like the Argentine’s today.

The FIA ​​has confirmed that the 10-second penalty, which it was unable to comply with, will be transformed into 5 penalty positions on the grid for the Bahrain GP in Malaysia. So the consequences of the accident will be felt even in the next race for the French team. “I am very disappointed with the result of today’s race.since we know that we lost valuable points in the fight for the championship. “These types of incidents should not happen, especially when we were doing well with both cars in positions to score points.”

“I feel very sad for the team and for Pierre, who did a great job all weekend, and also I apologize to Lando and McLaren for ruining their race.“. Gasly and Norris were fighting for seventh place when Colapinto, avoiding Kimi Antonellicollided with his teammate and also took Norris into the wall, ending three races in a corner.

The fight for fifth place in the constructors’ championship against Racing Bulls is still very much alive, so those from Enstone cannot allow many more mistakes. “I know that Franco has taken full responsibility for it, as he should. In fact, he braked too late considering the context of the race and the restart with the safety car”.

The positive side for them is that Arvid Lindblad He also took his companion ahead of him, Liam Lawsonin braking after the safety car. So the New Zealander could not add even more distance points to Racing Bulls against Alpineat this moment the Italians have 83, compared to the French’s 68.