Franco Colapinto leaves Australia with a good feeling after running the third race of the year at the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne Formula 2. The 20-year-old Argentine had obtained his best result since competing in Formula 2, finishing fourth in the Sprint Race, and now he completed a great feature race by finishing seventh in the ocean GP and scoring points again.
He had a problem at the start that left him last, but he managed to recover and little by little he climbed positions to leave that rocky start behind him. “It was a good end to the race. It’s a shame that we continue to have problems with the starts, as no one has. Now we have some tests to work on that and the which ones, which are the two weakest aspects. “Afterwards in the races we are very strong,” Colapinto analyzed.
Then, he lamented the misfortune of Dennis Hauger, his teammate, who had to leave after suffering a crash that forced the entry of the safety car. That situation, curiously, marked the beginning of the Argentine’s recovery in the competition that had the Frenchman Isack Hadjar as the winner.
Colapinto had experienced a similar situation in the Sprint Race, in which he came in fifth place. “It was risky to try at the end because my tires were worn out and I had already taken risks halfway through the race,” analyzed the Argentine at the end of the preliminary competition, when there was still no official resolution on the incidents and moments after the Frenchman Hadjar will celebrate the victory after 23 laps.
However, the stewards began to review the videos and stripped Hadjar of the victory by penalizing him 10 seconds for having been the cause of the accident between the Spanish Josep María Martí and the Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto. Thus, Colapinto finished fourth. The Frenchman, who had placed sixth, had his revenge in the main race.