Colapinto in tears after his mad Monza race: ‘I blew a big chance’ | OneFootball

Franco Colapinto, Alpine’s Argentine driver, could not hold back his tears and expressed his frustration after finishing ninth at the Italian GP, in a crazy race won by Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes).

The driver from Pilar was one of the main protagonists at Monza: he started seventh, benefited from Charles Leclerc’s (Ferrari) crash, and even climbed to third!, but a mistake cost him dearly: he dropped from 3rd to 16th. He then fought back and ended up scoring points.

“A tough race. Very frustrating. I had a great opportunity and I didn’t take it. Sad. It could have been a great race… A serious mistake,” he said in an interview with ESPN.

“I wasted a very important opportunity for the team and for myself. A little sad. Time to learn from this,” Colapinto concluded through tears, with nothing more to say in the heat of the moment after the intense race at Monza.

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