Franco Colapinto was thrilled with his performance on Saturday at the Canadian Grand Prix as he progressed to Q3 for a second consecutive round, securing P10 on the grid and out-qualifying his Alpine team mate.<\/p>\n
The Argentine driver seemed to take a step forward last time out in Miami<\/a> as he made it into both SQ3 and Q3 before achieving his best-ever result<\/a> of seventh in the Grand Prix, gaining a spot due to a post-race penalty for Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc<\/a>.<\/p>\n He brought his impressive form to the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and converted P13 to P9 in the Sprint<\/a>, crossing the line a couple of seconds behind the last points scorer of Arvid Lindblad, and later denied Audi\u2019s Nico Hulkenberg a place in Q3<\/a> by just 0.029s.<\/p>\n \u201cI think today has been a perfect day,\u201d Colapinto<\/a> said after Qualifying. \u201cIt\u2019s been very good in both sessions \u2013 the Sprint race and Qualifying. The race was very strong, very good pace, close to the points, and now again going flat-out from the start to the end and setting very good laps.<\/p>\n \u201cI have confidence in the car and I\u2019m very pleased with the result. I think we [made every] effort to put the car where it is today and everyone pushed so hard at the factory to be in this position and be close to scoring points, so I am very proud of everyone.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m proud of myself \u2013 I did a good job today and I\u2019m very happy with how we turned the year around. We started struggling in the first three rounds and now it\u2019s been a good couple of sessions in a row where we\u2019ve been strong, in front and in the points positions. I\u2019m very happy and very grateful to the team.\u201d<\/p>\n Expanding on the confidence he\u2019s found in recent events, he added: \u201cI think it kind of feels more like the first year I did in F1, 2024. I feel good and I feel able to push the limits.<\/p>\n \u201cThis year I felt good from the start, it\u2019s just that we didn\u2019t really have the pace in the first three races. Testing was good. Now it\u2019s just that everything came together and we have very good pace and strong results.\u201d<\/p>\n On the other side of the Alpine<\/a> garage, his team mate Pierre Gasly<\/a> experienced vastly contrasting emotions as he struggled to improve from a pit lane start in the Sprint and was then knocked out of Q2 in P14.<\/p>\n \u201cExtremely slow on my side so I\u2019m not too sure,\u201d the French driver later said when reflecting on Qualifying. \u201cWe know we clearly have work to do but at the moment it\u2019s just been two weekends of exactly the same thing. I can feel there is something not working but I need the team to help me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Franco Colapinto was thrilled with his performance on Saturday at the Canadian Grand Prix as he progressed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-457562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}