It is a measure of how impressive Franco Colapinto has been as Logan Sargeant’s mid-season replacement at Williams that the media in his native Argentina is already heralding him as a genius and mentioning him in the same breath as football legends and compatriots. Lionel. Messi and Diego Maradona.
The 21-year-old scored points in only his second race, scoring in two of his first four Grands Prix and finishing in the top 12 in each of the first five. That was in a midfield car and based on just a handful of non-representative laps in an FP1 session at Silverstone earlier this year, and some more mileage at the end-of-season one-day youth test. drivers in Abu Dhabi last year.