Alpine have confirmed and signed a new long-term contract with Pierre Gasly that will keep him with the team until at least 2028. Gasly’s new deal locks down one of Alpine’s two seats for the foreseeable future. However, which driver will partner the Frenchman continues to remain uncertain. Since joining the team in 2023, Gasly…
2025 marks a new year of opportunities for younger drivers or ones with plenty of experience in other categories as each team needs to give a rookie driver or drivers four opportunities in their cars during the season in F1 FP1 sessions. In previous years it had been just two, with many saving the second…
Ahead of the 2025 F1 Dutch GP, Franco Colapinto has refelcted on his performance during the first half of his Formula One season with Alpine. The Argentine has had a tough start to the 2025 F1 season. He is currently the only driver on the grid right now who hasn’t scored any points so far….
Franco Colapinto has finished Sunday’s F1 race for the Hungarian GP on 18th position, after initially starting P14. The Alpine driver believes that the race didn’t go their way, but some positives were still found on his side. Difficult Hungarian GP race for Colapinto Due to the nature of the Hungaroring, it’s difficult to overtake…
Alpine have confirmed that Franco Colapinto suffered a massive crash on the second day of Pirelli’s 2026 F1 tyre test at the Hungaroring circuit. The Italian tyre supplier has been conducting regular tests throughout the season to develop its 2026 tyre compounds. The new tyres are smaller and narrower as part of Formula 1’s upcoming…
Franco Colapinto was P14 in qualifying for the F1 Hungarian GP after a good showing on Saturday. Outpaced by Pierre Gasly on Friday, the driver from Argentina turned it around on Saturday. He was 0.3s faster in FP3, and backed it up by beating the Frenchman by 0.091s in Q1. Colapinto was P15, Gasly ended…
Pierre Gasly showed wonderful racecraft and pushed the A525 to its limits at the F1 Belgian GP weekend. While the Frenchman leaves Belgium with only one more point, he did everything he could to stay in the top ten, driving a mistake-free race. Pit at the correct moment On Friday, the Alpine driver drove an…
Franco Colapinto has opened up about his feeling in the Alpine A525, the strategy option he was planning to adopt, and the missed opportunities following the unfortunate DNS he encountered at the rain-swept F1 British GP. After finding the Alpine single-seater rather tricky to handle in the practice sessions, Colapinto’s race weekend only took a…
Unlike the majority of drivers on the 2025 F1 grid, Franco Colapinto did not commence his season at the opener in Melbourne. Instead, his campaign began in Imola after months of speculation, intensified by a hot-mic incident involving YPF CEO Horacio Marin. Consequently, the Argentine driver earned promotion to Alpine’s second seat, replacing F1 rookie…
The first half of the 2025 F1 season witnessed another harsh reminder of the sport’s unforgiving nature when Alpine replaced Jack Doohan with Franco Colapinto at Imola, marking the second in-season driver change of the year. What unfolded was a perfect storm of circumstance, expectation, and opportunity that ultimately saw a young driver’s F1 dream…
