He’s seen Franco progress through the Williams Driver Academy and it’s clear he sees something in him so he gave him a go to see if he’s as good as the team think he is.
Franco made a great first impression at Monza. I look at the gap to his team mate rather than the race result – and he was only 13 seconds or so behind Alex.
Alex is very good driver – so that was a great drive from Franco. If he hadn’t made that mistake in qualifying, he could have been even closer to Alex in the race.
He did a good job for his first race. He needs to keep it up now, which is as difficult as doing your first race.
PALMER: Antonelli vs Colapinto – how did the two F1 rookies measure up at Monza?
‘Ollie was the obvious choice to stand-in for Magnussen at Haas’
Kevin did a good job at Monza. When he is in a position to score something, he stands up behind the wheel. When he’s motivated, he’s a very good driver.
Now he gets some free time off with this race ban! It was highly possible that he would get a ban before the end of the year because he was so close to the penalty point limit.