2024-08-31 03:01:00
The Argentine driver of the Williams Racing team Franco Colapinto repeated the seventeenth position of the first practice at the end of the second and now he will have to face his first qualifying for the Monza Grand Prix in Italy, this Saturday, August 31.
In lIn the second round, which took place at 12 noon (Argentine time), Colapinto improved on the mistakes he made in the first practice session and maneuvered the Williams more easily. Although he finished in the same position (17) already more than a second behind the leaderwhich was Lewis Hamilton, his time was 1:21.784 – better than in the previous practice – and left the members of his team satisfied.
However, Colapinto’s work with his Williams is not over and now he must prepare for the third training session, which will take place this Saturday, August 31 at 7:00 p.m.and for the three stages of what will be his first qualifying in Formula 1.
How was your first stage?
A few minutes after starting, Colapinto was forced to return to the pit lane after a red flag following Kimi Antonelli’s crash into a wall in George Russell’s Mercedes and fortunately the Italian pilot escaped unharmed.
Meanwhile, The Argentinean finished among the top ten in training, finishing seventh, but was later overtaken by some of the other drivers and ended up dropping his place on the grid to seventeenth. position in the table 1.204 seconds behind Dutchman Max Verstappen and 0.660 seconds behind his teammate Alex Albon, who finished in eighth place.
At the end of the session, The man from Pilar had a small mishap that caused a yellow flag but nothing serious happened. Still, on social media, Williams celebrated the good performance of its two drivers.