Phenomenal weekend for Colapinto in Formula 2: he fails again at the start, but finishes seventh in the Australian Grand Prix

Franco Colapinto leaves Australia with good feelings after taking part in the third race of the year at the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne Formula 2. The 20-year-old Argentinian had achieved his best result since competing in Formula 2, finishing fourth Sprint race, and now he completed a great race by finishing seventh in the Ocean GP and scoring points again.

He had a problem at the start which left him last, but he managed to recover and little by little he moved up positions to put that difficult start behind him. “It was a good end to the race. It’s a shame that we continue to have problems with departures, because no one has had them. Now we have some tests to work on this and the qualis, which are the two weakest aspects. “Afterwards in the races we are very strong,” Colapinto analyzed.

He then lamented the misfortune of Dennis Hauger, his teammate, who had to abandon after suffering a fall which forced the entry of the Safety machine. That situation, curiously, marked the beginning of the Argentine’s recovery in the competition which saw the Frenchman Isack Hadjar as the winner.

Colapinto had experienced a similar situation in Sprint race, in which he finished fifth. “It was risky to try at the end because my tires were worn and I had already taken a risk halfway through the race,” analyzed the Argentine at the end of the preliminaries, when there had not yet been an official resolution on the incidents and moments later it will be the Frenchman Hadjar to celebrate the victory after 23 laps.

However, the stewards began reviewing the videos and deprived Hadjar of the victory by penalizing him 10 seconds for being the cause of the accident between Spaniard Josep María Martí and Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto. Colapinto thus finished fourth. The Frenchman, who had placed sixth, took revenge in the main race.