Franco Colapinto will return to the System 1 grid subsequent weekend when he takes over Jack Doohan’s Alpine race seat on the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix. Forward of the Argentinian’s comeback, F1.com revisits his stand-in run for Williams over the second half of the 2024 season to supply a race-by-race rating of his efforts…
Colapinto burst onto the F1 scene at Monza final 12 months, when Williams opted to advertise their academy member and F2 race winner in favour of Logan Sargeant, who was struggling for tempo alongside Alex Albon – and struggling to maintain his automobile on the observe.
It was a robust begin for the 21-year-old Colapinto, who impressed many paddock observers along with his initially cool, calm and picked up shows en path to Q3 appearances and factors finishes – however there have been additionally some expensive errors and crashes alongside the way in which.
Scroll down for a evaluate of Colapinto’s weekends from worst to finest…
#9 – Brazil
Apart from a observe shunt in Azerbaijan, which he brilliantly bounced again from (extra on that later), Colapinto stored issues comparatively clear throughout his first 5 Grands Prix on the wheel, however that report was dramatically undone throughout a severely rain-hit occasion at Interlagos.
Colapinto crashed in Qualifying and the Grand Prix across the Sao Paulo venue, undoing the exhausting work of his mechanics between periods (which have been each held on Sunday) and leaving them with an enormous quantity extra to do earlier than the following spherical in Las Vegas.
