Formula 3: Franco Colapinto won in Australia

What started out great ended badly Franco Colapinto. The Argentine had won the Sprint Race at the Australian Grand Prix formula 3 but he was disqualified for technical irregularities in the three cars of the MP Motorsport team.

The member of williams academy From Formula 1 He had put in a great performance on track, after starting sixth and taking the lead by overtaking Sebastián Montoya, son of ex F1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya, on lap six of a race with multiple incidents and which ended under a safety car.

However, a few hours later and after celebrating his third win in the category and first of the season on the podium, the technical review established that car number 10 had “parts of the body outside the regulatory limits”

“Changes to the geometry of the parts in question are prohibited by the rules outside of basic repairs,” the category statement explained.

The other MP Motorsport drivers, the British Jonny Edgar and the Spanish Mari Boya, were also excluded from the standings.

In this way, the American Zach O’Sullivan , of Prema Racing and a member like Colapinto of the Williams Academy for young drivers, inherited the victory, while Montoya (Hitech GP) moved up to second place in what was his first podium in F3. While the third place is in the hands of the Estonian paolo aronalso from Prema Racing.

Colapinto’s revenge on the track will take place during the Argentinian night, when the Feature Race gets underway at 20:05. The native of Pilar, who before the disqualification was the only rider who had managed to repeat the podium after two rounds of the season, will start from seventh position.