Franco Colapinto \u2018acted like he was Max Verstappen\u2019 at the United States Grand Prix, according to F1 icon Juan Pablo Montoya. The Alpine driver was reprimanded by his team after denying team orders to overtake team-mate Pierre Gasly late in the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s see, I\u2019ll give you both sides of the coin and let people think what they want,\u201d Montoya told AS Colombia. \u201cI\u2019m not going to get involved in controversy. First, I\u2019m going to defend it, because he was coming faster, the team is crazy, what are they playing at? Why are they giving him a team order at this point? What do they need? Honestly, unnecessary. He wasn\u2019t going to affect the result.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy? If Franco is on a different strategy with fresher tyres, why are they doing that? They\u2019re way out of line. On the other hand, and I can also add to that, well done to Franco for standing up for himself and deciding, \u2018I don\u2019t care, I\u2019m not going to let myself be pushed around, right?\u2019 That\u2019s what you\u2019d think from those moves.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other side is that Franco is not world champion at the moment. Franco is not Lewis Hamilton at the moment, he is not Max Verstappen to be able to come and not follow team orders. Team orders have their reason and you have to follow them, whether you like it or not. And not following team orders has consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Franco Colapinto \u2018acted like he was Max Verstappen\u2019 at the United States Grand Prix, according to F1 icon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,3025,578,2477,32936,28673,576,577,3023,591,932,1885,113952,592,82],"class_list":["post-242215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charles-leclerc","tag-f1","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-live-news","tag-f1-news","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lance-stroll","tag-lando-norris","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-mexico-city-grand-prix","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}