2024-08-31 15:23:43
Colapinto, ready for his first Formula 1 Gran Premio
By Jorge Dominico
The days with which Frank Colapinto dreamed came to reality for the 21-year-old Argentine pilot who shook the Formula 1 in the last week. He complied with all the previous steps, including three training sessions in which he reached 9th place among the 20 scored and the 18th place in the ranking which orders the output positions of the Italian Grand Prix Sunday at 10 amFor the championship, it is the 16th race and he will start from the best position. Lando Norris (McLaren), in the Monza National Racetrack, while Colapinto will start from the penultimate row.
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Pupi Zanetti, the chosen one to distinguish Lando Norris
Colapinto was not the only Argentine present this Saturday in the qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix. When the engines were turned off and the time came to distinguish who had the best time and will start from pole position tomorrow, Pupi Zanetti came on the scene. The former Argentine footballer, recognized for his time at Inter Milan as a player and now as a manager, was in charge of presenting the obligatory award to Lando Norris.
As usual, the Briton took home a smaller-scale replica of a Pirelli tyre, the firm that supplies Formula 1, autographed in this case by Zanetti, who stamped his signature after giving it to him in recognition of his work in qualifying.
Lando Norris starts from pole position
British driver Lando Norris, driving McLaren, took first place on the starting grid for the Italian Grand Prix, which will be held this Sunday at the Monza circuit.
The podium was completed by his teammate, Oscar Piastri, and fellow Briton George Russell, with Mercedes Benz.
This is how they will start tomorrow:
“It’s a shame because we had good potential,” Colapinto lamented.
After finishing 18th and out of the race in the first session at Monza, Colapinto gave his impressions on his first qualifying for a Formula 1 Grand Prix. “It’s a shame because we had good potential,” he lamented.
Although he was aware that “the learning process has just begun,” he said, the Argentine driver was somewhat annoyed by his performance. “I was comfortable and felt that I could have a good result,” he explained.
He then recounted what he saw on the track: that he was looking for time to make it through to Qualifying 2 and went off track at Turn 7, where other drivers with much more experience than him also had problems. He said that he believes that was where he broke the floor of his Williams and his chances were over.
Colapinto will start this Sunday in 18th place
The Argentine driver failed to make it through the first qualifying session and will start tomorrow’s Italian Grand Prix in 18th place.
Colapinto was left out of Qualifying 2 by a tenth and a half.
On the decisive lap, when he had to improve his time to move on to the next stage, he did not get off to a good start in the first sector of the circuit and then, in an attempt to improve his time, he had a small exit off the track at the Lesmo curve.
Colapinto made his first timed lap
The driver from Pilar went out on track a few minutes after the pit lane opened.
In his first timed lap, he finished in eighth place.
Colapinto takes to the track for qualifying at Monza
Argentine pilot Franco Colapinto is preparing to start his first classification in Formula 1 at the Monza circuit in Italy. The Willimas Racing team posted a post on their social media to highlight it.
“Qualifying mode activated,” Williams wrote on social media about Colapinto’s first F1 qualifying session. The Argentine finished ninth in the pre-qualifying test.