弗兰科·科拉平托泪洒意大利大奖赛,一次失误错失争夺前排机会
弗兰科·科拉平托在意大利大奖赛中一度升至第三,但一次重大失误让他冲出赛道,失去争夺领奖台的机会,最终以第九名完赛,为阿尔派车队带回积分。
弗朗哥·科拉平托赛后落泪,一次“重大失误”让他失去了在意大利大奖赛冲击前列的机会
这位阿根廷车手在意大利大奖赛第二次发车后一度升至第三位,但随后一次失误使他冲出赛道,名次大幅下滑
弗朗哥·科拉平托在意大利大奖赛中一度处于领跑集团,但一次失误终结了他争夺领奖台的希望,不过他最终恢复状态以第九名完赛,为阿尔派车队挽回了一些积分。
这位阿尔派车手从第七位发车,由于夏尔·勒克莱尔与刘易斯·汉密尔顿发生事故导致后者名次大跌,科拉平托在发车后上升了一个位置。随后当勒克莱尔在第二圈末段撞车时,他又上升一位,并在片刻之后超越了奥斯卡·皮亚斯特里,但不久之后比赛便出示了红旗。
第二次起步时,科拉平托排在第四位发车,并立即向马克斯·维斯塔潘发起进攻,在第一个减速弯超过了这位红牛车手,一度升至第三位。维斯塔潘在通往罗贾变线弯的直道上予以反击,重新夺回了位置。
但仅仅几米之后,科拉平托驾驶的阿尔派赛车在莱斯莫弯失控冲入砂石区,名次一路跌至第16位。
“我有一个绝佳的机会,但我没有抓住,所以我很难过,真的非常难过。我觉得这本可以是一场很棒的比赛,而那是一个重大失误。我错失了一个对车队和我自己都非常重要的机会,所以我为此感到有些伤心。从中吸取教训是很艰难的,”赛后泪流满面的科拉平托在接受阿根廷ESPN采访时说道。
这位年轻的阿根廷车手上周刚被官宣将继续留在阿尔派征战2027赛季,稍后在蒙扎面对包括《赛车运动》网站(Motorsport.com)在内的平面媒体时,他依然难掩沮丧之情。
“我只是很沮丧。我觉得我做了不少不错的东西,”科拉平托说。“我也不知道,我就在5-6号弯完全失去了对赛车的控制,有点莫名其妙,非常令人沮丧。我觉得我们本来可以做出一些好成绩,P2和P3近在眼前,你感觉自己状态很强,突然之间就在和顶尖车队较量,你会很快变得非常有动力,而一个这样的失误就把一切都抛掉了,我只是很沮丧。
“我还不太明白到底发生了什么。赛车非常猛烈地失去了抓地力,我高速冲过了碎石区,赛车受损很严重,我以为不得不退赛了,然后我们又重新跑了上去,我们用工具对赛车做了一些调整,把所有东西稍微封闭起来,让赛车的空气阻力稍微变大了一些,是的,最终成功拿到了积分。
争夺领奖台的战斗本来就很难持续下去,正如他在阿尔派的队友皮埃尔·加斯利所展示的那样。加斯利从杆位发车,但最终只获得第七名。然而,这丝毫没有减轻科拉平托的沮丧情绪。
“只是对没有最大化发挥赛车性能以及我们一起做的那些不错的工作感到沮丧,是的,我觉得就为未来吸取教训吧,”他说。“但我们在前面、在领先集团战斗的机会并不多,出现这样的时刻格外令人沮丧。我觉得我们本应该拿到更多积分,所以要对车队说声抱歉,希望我们在马德里能做得更好。
当Motorsport.com问及他超越四届世界冠军维斯塔潘的那次超车时,科拉平托淡化了这次动作的意义,同时承认这恰恰凸显了他们错失了多少机会。
"我认为当你坐在车里的时候,其实感觉不到是和这一个还是另一个较量的区别,但和他们战斗感觉很酷,"他说。"这就是我之前想表达的意思,能和顶级赛车、顶级车队并排争夺,我们平时真的做不到。所以就这样错过这样一个机会,非常痛苦。"
英文原文
Franco Colapinto in tears after a “big mistake” cost him a shot at the front in Italian GP
The Argentine had risen to third at the second start of the Italian Grand Prix before a mistake sent him off track and dropped him down the order
Franco Colapinto was running at the sharp end of the field in the Italian Grand Prix before a mistake ended his hopes of fighting for a podium, although he recovered to finish ninth and salvage points for Alpine.
The Alpine driver started seventh and gained a place at the start after an incident involving Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton sent the latter tumbling down the order. Colapinto then moved up another position when Leclerc crashed at the end of the second lap before overtaking Oscar Piastri moments later, only for the race to be red-flagged shortly afterwards.
Colapinto lined up fourth for the second start and immediately made his move on Max Verstappen, passing the Red Bull driver into the first chicane to briefly move up to third. Verstappen hit back on the run down to the Variante della Roggia, retaking the position.
But just metres later, Colapinto lost control of his Alpine through the Lesmo corner and ran into the gravel, dropping all the way down to 16th.
"I had a great opportunity and I didn't take it, so I'm sad, really sad about that. I think it could have been a great race, and that was a big mistake. I missed a very important opportunity for the team and for myself, so I'm a bit sad about that. Learning from this is difficult," a tearful Colapinto told ESPN Argentina after the race.
The young Argentine, who was announced last week as continuing with Alpine for the 2027 season, was still visibly frustrated when he later spoke to the written press in Monza, including Motorsport.com.
"I'm just frustrated. I think I did some good stuff," Colapinto said. "I don't know, I just lost the car completely in Turn 5-6, a bit out of nowhere, it's very frustrating. I think we could have done some good things, P2 and P3 together, and you feel so strong and suddenly fighting with the top teams, you get very motivated very quickly, and a mistake like that, it throws all away, and I'm just frustrated.
"I don't really understand yet what happened. I lost the car very aggressively, I went very fast through the gravel, I had a lot of damage, I thought I was going to have to retire, and then we started to go again, we changed the car a bit with the tools, we closed everything up a little bit and made the car slightly more draggy again, and yeah, managed to score points."
A podium battle was always going to be difficult to sustain, as his Alpine team-mate Pierre Gasly demonstrated. Gasly started from pole but ultimately finished seventh. That, however, did little to ease Colapinto's frustration.
"Just frustrated with not maximising the car and the good stuff that we were doing together, and yeah, I think just learn for the future," he said. "But we don't get many of these opportunities fighting up there and at the front, and it's extra frustrating to have moments like this. I think we should have scored more points, so, sorry to the team, and hopefully we can do better in Madrid."
Asked by Motorsport.com about his pass on four-time world champion Verstappen, Colapinto played down the significance of the move, while acknowledging that it underlined just how much had slipped away.
"I think when you're in the car you don't really feel the difference if it's one or another, but it was cool to be fighting with them," he said. "That's what I meant [before], and to be fighting side-by-side with the top cars and the top teams, we cannot really do it. And so to just miss an opportunity like this, it's very painful."
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