The step of Franco Colapinto For the highest category he adds another story that adds to his experience. The Argentine continues to mark his arrival to the Formula 1. His arrival at Williams took place after the middle of the season and with nine competitions ahead, which allowed him to leave his name well positioned. This time Franco Colapinto stood out for having become the fastest driver on the 2024 grid. With the WilliamsFranco reached a maximum speed of 356.4 km/h during the Las Vegas Grand Prix in the United States.
This marks a new record for Franco Colapinto. This means that the Argentine has managed to position himself among the main drivers of the season. The work done by Franco far surpassed the world champion Max Verstappen and left aside an experienced driver like Lewis Hamilton with the Mercedes Benz. The 21-year-old Argentine achieved this feat in the streets of Las Vegas, a circuit that Colapinto did not know and in which he was trying to adapt, in that context Franco was able to set this record, remaining in the most notable statistics of the year 2024.
This statistic shows that Franco Colapinto was the fastest, surpassing the mark of drivers like Fernando Alonso with the Aston Martin who achieved a speed of 353.5 km/h on the Italian track of Monza, behind the Spanish former world champion was Daniel Ricciardo who managed to reach 353.2 km/h with the Red Bull satellite team. Without a doubt, this further enhances the Argentine’s feat, who for now remains the fastest of the season.
These marks are surprising even though they are far from the record held by the Finn. Valtteri Bottas who reached 378 km/h when he was in the Mercedes Benz team. This happened in 2022 when Formula 1 competed in the Baku Grand Prix in Azerbaijan. This mark is far from what was recorded this year and far from the maximum speeds of the last championships. Franco Colapinto joins the list usually recorded by the International Automobile Federation, FIA, in the statistics that mark history.
Franco Colapinto ran nine competitions this season with the Williams team. He achieved his best result on a difficult circuit like the streets of Baku where he confirmed the complication of the layout when he slightly hit his unit during the rehearsal session. In the end, taking eighth place and adding their first points meant positioning themselves as one of the revelations of the championship. In Austin, United States GP, Franco managed to arrive in tenth position also adding points for the championship. There were nine vertigo-inducing competitions true to the world of Formula 1.
The blows in Brazil along with the abandonment in Qatar and Abu Dhabi marked the negative part of Colapinto’s time in F1. Without a doubt, Franco managed to surprise the padockk of the category that is debated today in different ways to position the Argentine in a seat as a starter. Today the most reliable and concrete option is the one that Alpine put on the table and although it is possible that we will have to wait four races, Colapinto would have a future marked to continue in F1