Franco Colapinto The path is made by accelerating in the jungle that is the Formula 1. The Argentine, who last weekend made history by scoring points on the Baku street circuit, once again showed his talent and his desire to remain in the category as soon as the season began. Singapore Grand Prix on the complex and hot Marina Bay route.
The Argentine put his foot down Williams once the traffic lights went out and, through courage and other people’s mistakes, he overtook three cars to go from the twelfth place he had achieved in the classification to ninth place. Yes, he got into the top ten in the first round. Impressive maneuver that immediately went viral.
His exit, through the dirty part of the track, amazed everyone and everyone. And he also made his teammate, the Thai, a little angry. Alex Albonwho protested his teammate’s move on the radio. It was helplessness for the Asian, who had fallen to 15th place and shortly after, after passing through the pits, he had problems with his car and had to abandon.
Colapinto’s amazing start had a beneficiary. It was Sergio Checo Pérez, who followed in his footsteps and also climbed three positions to be tenth behind the Argentine. The Mexican, with his most powerful car, was within range of the Argentine and, when the DRS was enabled, he chased him for a couple of turns to overtake him.
In fact, his engineer told him on the radio to take advantage of the Williams’ grip problems to try to gain position.
That’s why Checo went. But he couldn’t. He tried but could never catch up to Colapinto. So much so that the Red Bull man, after starting to fall behind, surrendered at the Argentine’s feet.
“Collapinto is very good, difficult to pass,” said Pérez, who could not find a way to overcome him. At that point, before the parade through the pits to change tires began, Franco was still ninth and the Mexican was tenth but more than three seconds behind.