The Argentine Formula 2 driver will start tomorrow from pole position in the Imola sprint race.
On the fourth date of the 2024 Formula 2 calendar, which returns to action this weekend after almost two months of inactivity, Franco Colapinto finished today in tenth position in the classification, which would allow him starting tomorrow from the pole for the Sprint because of the inverted grid system that this category has.
Colapinto, MP Motorsport driver, achieved a time of 1m27s954 – less than a second faster than the Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto – which allowed him to enter the top 10 of the drivers who competed on the Italian track. The man from Pilar had just finished ninth in free practice and now he didn’t get off to a good start as he almost crashed into the retaining walls but he avoided the impact and, after stopping in the pits, managed to finish tenth place .
How Franco Colapinto came to the F2 race at Imola
The Argentine had a good start to the season in Bahrain, where he scored his first points by finishing in sixth position. After that, the following weekend in Saudi Arabia, he had a very complicated Grand Prix, first in the sprint – his car stopped at the start – and then in the race – he hit the wall, causing him to lose control car and turned around, so he left.
And in the last grand prix held in Australia, the Pilar-born man had a great race, rising from 13th to 7th place, but at the end of the race he was disqualified for failing to method of preparing to start a career. .
The award that Colapinto will present to Traverso in Formula 2
The 20-year-old driver shared through his Instagram account that the car he will be driving at the next Formula 2 date will have the emblematic Traverso surname. “For the sake of this weekend,” Colapinto wrote to accompany the photo of the car he uploaded to his story.
The Argentine part of the ranks of the MP Motorsport team and the Williams Academy said goodbye on Saturday, when he learned of the death of the multi-time national champion: “I am very lucky to have met you and to be with you in a very important conversation for me. Unique and incomparable. May you rest in peace, Flaco,” were the words he dedicated to him in another Instagram story, with a photo of a press conference where Traverso and Colapinto were present.
Source: Tycsports
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