Franco Colapinto: “It was positive after the classification”

The Argentine highlighted the learning that meant completing the GP of Emilia-Romagna, said he had not suffered in the physical and explained the weak point of Alpine.

Not even 15 minutes from the end of the GP of Emilia-Romagna and Franco Colapinto arrives at the press corral. Botellite of water in hand, which takes every time from a long hose, the Argentine stops a couple of microphones. When it ends, you realize that the other TV positions are busy. So Sam Mallison, Alpine’s press manager, decides ES AM850.com. From the entrance, the Postone team pilot performs an analysis of his Icola career: “I learned a lot, it was very positive after yesterday. The race was against us. I made the longest stint with the middle rubber, I was going to a single stop and had a very good pace compared to those who were hard. And when we stop to put the hard ones, a couple of turns later falls the virtual security car and that shit my life. The important thing is that we had the rhythm and compared to those around ours we were very strong. You have to work to continue learning and understanding the car a little more. We have data to go more comfortable with the car to the next races, “he says.

The result, of course, was not expected by Alpine. Pierre Gasly was 13th and Colapint, 16º, both outside the points zone, a place little visited this year by the French team. Although his performance left him satisfied: “I am happy, obvious that it is not the result we expected with either of the two cars, but it is what there is. In the race we are a little weaker. So, to work. It is difficult to pass cars and with the motor deficit that we have in the race especially, we leave a little back and it is complicated to maintain the position in which we leave. But with the passing of the races we will improve that and maximize the car. “

The last part of the race, after the security car that entered by the abandonment of Kimi Antonelli, was the time of best rhythm of Colapinto. “A shame not to have been able to advance in the last Stint. I finished well physically, after so much time of not driving I thought it was going to be complicated, especially because it is a track with many potholes. So surely my body hurts tomorrow,” Franco explained.

For the closure, it is consulted on whether it is frustrated not to pass cars through that engine weakness. And the answer has a strong meaning: “It is not ideal to not be able to pass, but surely next year, with the changes, we suffer a little less. “And he leaves. That Alpine statement on the rise of Colapint To hold for five races, then denied by Flavio Briatore, director of the team, it seems that it is losing validity.