Lionel Scaloni: “It is a pride to have Franco Colapinto”

The coach of the Argentine National Team, a passionate about motor racing, one more fan during the Belgium GP of F1 in Spa-Francorchamps.

Lionel Scaloni spent several Sunday morning mornings following one of his passions: motoring. Ford of Ford, always remained aware of everything that happened in Road Tourism, the most important category in Argentina and its great idol was Oscar Castilian, the lobberry skewer. These days it encourages Mariano Werner, the oval emblem in the divisional octogenarian. When football took him to Europe, his love for car races continued with Formula 1, but live and direct, not for TV as he did from Argentina. Therefore, it was not surprised to see the DT World Champion with the Argentine National Team at the Spa-Francorchamp Padock, during the 13th F1 date.

From the current grill, Scaloni has Fernando Alonso as the chosen one: “He is the best of the grill and sometimes miracles,” said. Although already in the final stretch of the Spanish campaign, the DT is thrown to the Max Verstappen side. But, of course, His big support is for Franco Colapinto, the Argentine representative That has the grill.

“I talked a little while with Franco, it is a pride. On the official TV of F1, Scaloni could be seen, accompanied by his son Ian, chatting animatedly with Verstappen. “My son wanted to greet him,” he said, although he will also like it, without a doubt.

The selection coach had been in Spa in 2011 for the last time: “This place changed a lot since the last time I came. The cars are faster, make less noise, yes. The Porsche Cup makes more noise.”

Finally, Scaloni drew a parallel between the task of a technical soccer director and a F1 team director: “For what I saw yesterday, the team director works with two pilots, but the results are the ones who send and the pressure of the weekend, to turn the quick turn … High performance sport is all similar. The results send, the time is short. There are similarities, “he analyzed before asking for the triumph of Verstappen or a Ferrari because” he has fans everywhere. “