It is a measure of simply how spectacular Franco Colapinto has been as a mid-season substitute for Logan Sargeant at Williams that media in his residence 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 throughout 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 yr, and a few extra mileage within the one-day end-of-season younger drivers check in Abu Dhabi final yr.
