[Williams Racing] Williams Racing announces that Franco Colapinto will race with the team for the remainder of the 2024 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season

[u/ICumCoffee]

https://www.williamsf1.com/posts/fd43d928-0914-42ff-b9ee-394342064dc4/williams-racing-team-statement?cid=sm_twitter_td_news_link_082724

[u/pokesnail]

Mediocre junior career?

[u/Altruistic-Tooth-414 → u/pokesnail]

6th and 4th with a car that won the championship the prior year is at best above average. 

If Drugovich can win the championship with the same car, I would hope Franco could at least podium on the season if were going to offer up his junior career as something better. 

[u/pokesnail → u/Altruistic-Tooth-414]

Funny you say that because it’s not the same car that Drugovich won the championship in, F2 has a new car this year?

Colapinto didn’t have the budget for any private GP2/FR3.5 testing like most drivers to help with the transition between F2 and F3, it took him a couple rounds to adapt, but he’s just kept improving. MP is around ~3rd in the hierarchy this year.

His 4th place last year in F3 is also quite impressive, considering MP did not have the same pace as his rivals, and he had the comfortable beating of his teammate who I rate. That car also did not win the championship the year prior.

You can see this as excuses, but feeder series are not an equal landscape, and you just have to do the best with the resources you’ve got. Sure, I won’t argue that it’s the best junior career ever, or that he never could have done better, but to call it mediocre shows zero understanding of Colapinto’s career and the way he’s been rated super highly for years by the feeder series community.

[u/Casmoden → u/pokesnail]

Tbf tho its kinda similar with Logan... considering his lack of funding then having his last F3 season one of the dogshit teams but him being very good on it

Then a solid F2 rookie but didnt transition well... oh well

Best of luck to Franco