Franco Colapinto: “It is costing us a lot here”

The Argentine analyzed the first day of work in the Hungary GP and pointed to the difficulties that his Alpine presents to explain the lazy walk of his and that of his partner Pierre Gasly.

The numbers do not lie. They are cold, sometimes they fall well, sometimes bad. But they are number, there is no return to give it. There is no version A or B, if it says 19 and 20 it is 19 and 20. And those were the positions that the Alpine occupied in the training of the Friday of the Hungary GP, 14th F1 date. Pierre Gasly was penultimate and Franco Colapinto, last. It is a point fact.

Then, yes, The analysis of why that happened. That the car was wrong, it is clear, numbers. That Colapint fails to make a jump in 2025 is clear, numbers. Of course, the A525 did not help much in the hungaroring and that is fundamentally reflected for the performance of the Frenchman.

After closing Friday’s activity, Colapinto spoke with AM850 and tried to explain the reasons for those numbers. “We do not find the grip in general, I do not know, it is costing us a lot here. Tonight we have to understand the reason. We have to work hard to be better tomorrow (for Saturday) because we are quite far. We tried some changes that did not work, we went through different paths. It was a complicated day and we are far,” Franco said.