Franco Colapinto, with another box for the GP of Spain

After the classification problem, the Alpine team decided to make the change to avoid new inconveniences on the ninth formula 1 date.

Franco Colapint’s unease image turned the world. The Alpine pilot had achieved his best time in all weekend averaging the Q1 of the GP of Spain, ninth formula date 1and enlisted to make a last attempt and seal a passport to Q2 that seemed insured. But the A525 of the Argentine stood because he could not put the first in the middle of the boxes departure. There was no case, his participation in the classification was completed and was eliminated in the first segment.

The Escudería de Estone made a first official statement a couple of hours later in which it announced a transmission problem, without providing any other data. And he warned that there would be no more information available until before Sunday’s career. Finally, in the Spanish morning, Alpine published a statement.

“After yesterday’s incident in the classification, the team replaced Franco’s car gearbox with identical features. It will come from the 18th position of the grid,” was the part of the French team.

The Argentine does not penalize for the change of the box and, in addition, a place in the departure grid for the dropout of Lance Stroll, who will not run in Barcelona for pain in one of the hands. Colapinto had been 19th in the classification. Alpine hopes to have left behind the problems in the A525 of Buenos Aires (he also suffered a hydraulic leak on Friday) and to advance in the 66 laps that the competition will have.