It is a measure of simply how spectacular Franco Colapinto has been as a mid-season alternative for Logan Sargeant at Williams that media in his house nation of Argentina are already heralding him as a genius and mentioning him in the identical breath as footballing legends and countrymen Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona.
The 21-year-old scored factors in solely his second race, scored in two of his first 4 Grands Prix and was inside the top-12 in every of the primary 5. That was in a midfield automotive and on a basis of only a handful of unrepresentative laps in an FP1 session at Silverstone earlier this 12 months, and a few extra mileage within the one-day end-of-season younger drivers take a look at in Abu Dhabi final 12 months.
