It’s only been one year since that fifth place finish Pierre Gasly Last year at the Qatar Grand Prix, but the Alps dropped a thousand places and on a track created for Moto GP racing, the A525 and Franco Colapinto suffers from it. The Argentine finished last in the Sprint Race Follower Qatar Grand Prixafter the French team made a double pit stop to test the soft rubber for qualifying and Lance Stroll entered among its drivers, frustrated once again. “The car doesn’t go”He mentioned the preview of the qualifiers, which will be at three in the afternoon. In Argentina.
After a disappointing Friday, Flavio Briatore’s side – although the team leader on paper is Steve Nielsen – broke down the barriers of the park for a change. “Comment settings” of both cars, causing them to start from the pitlane, along with Lewis Hamilton (another person who struggled on Saturday at Losail) and Lance Stroll, so only 16 starting slots were taken in the final short race of the season.
On a track where overtaking seems an impossible task, Oscar Piastri did not lose the lead at any point during the race and secured the eight points that now allow him to take the Distance 22 with Lando Norrisworld championship leader and heavy favorite for the title, finished third behind George Russell. In those positions in the title fight, Max Verstappen was fourth and 25th, so Red Bull – now that the heat has been turned up – will have to work to avoid that bounce that the four-time Dutch champion complained about over the weekend.
now, What happened to Colapinto in this 19-lap race where the most interesting thing was what happened in the first three laps, with Verstappen less than half a second behind Norris? He started 20th and remained in that position until Lance Stroll entered at the end of lap 14 To install soft rubber. However, when Alpine also used that strategy to qualify for the final lap, it returned to the starting place.
“Unfortunately, I came out right behind Stroll.”, The 22-year-old driver from Buenos Aires explained on ESPN. “We were very slow the whole lap to open up the gap with Pierre and I, I left Stroll behind and I couldn’t do a clean lap without dirty air. It’s positive that I can learn a little bit. Likewise, we’re not going fast and that’s the most frustrating thing. I think Pierre was faster and found more good things in the car. I…we’ve taken it too lightly and no, it’s not working, we have to see why and see if we can fix the problem a little bit for the sake of quality“He added.
“We’re not going fast, that’s the most frustrating thing.” Franco Colapiente analyzes Alpine’s performance in the Sprint Race.
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Information to better understand Alpine’s performance: Only two of the 20 cars in the Sprint Race couldn’t lower the 1s26 and those were the French team’s pink cars. It is true that when he wore red, Colapinto managed to be one of the fastest drivers with a time of 1:23, but no one tested the qualifying pace other than his teammate Gasly and Stroll, with more worn red tires. It remains to be seen what will happen from 15th in the classification, although the outlook does not look good for the penultimate race of the season.