Franco Colapinto will have its re -eighth in Formula 1 at the Icola Grand Prix, which will take place between May 16 and 18 In the Enzo e Dino Ferrari autodrome in Emilia-Romaña. The Argentine, who began the year as Alpine reserve pilot, will be Pierre Gasly’s partner replacing Jack Doohan, who left his armchair after six dates in which he did not live up to it.
The Australian had assured his participation in the first six calendar days and his continuity as a title pilot depended pure and exclusively on good results. Finally it was not up to it and was one of the pilots with the worst performance: He abandoned in Australia and Miami, was 15 ° in China and Japan, 14th in Bahrain and 17 ° in Saudi Arabia.
Colapinto, meanwhile, arrived at the French team earlier this year, from Williams, where he debuted in the highest category of international motor racing and ran nine races with disparate results, but with an amazing irruption. He added points in Baku (4) and Austin (1), abandoned by accidents in Brazil, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and was 12 ° in Monza and Mexico, 11th in Singapore and 14 ° in Las Vegas.
In this year, the Pilarense corridor must demonstrate his value in five races to stay in the elite. Will face three consecutive weeks in European circuits, in Italia (GP de Emilia-Romagna en Imola), Monaco y Space (Montmeló). And after a pause, the Atlantic Ocean will cross to run in Canada (Montreal), and then return to the old continent, where he will arrive in Austria (Spielberg).
He Autodrome Enzo and Dino Ferrari He housed a Formula 1 Grand Prize for the first time in 1981 and from that moment he began to know him as the San Marino GP, in which A total of 27 races were ran until 2006, including the remembered 1994 edition that forced the circuit for security reasons.
That tragic weekend It was marked by the deaths of the Austrian Roland Ratzenberger (Saturday) and of the triple world champion Ayrton Senna (Sunday), as well as for several seriousness accidents that caused injuries to different pilots. In 2020 he returned to the F1 calendar as the headquarters of the Emilia-Romagna GP. Since then, the only winners were: Lewis Hamilton (2020) and Max Verstappen (2021, 2022 and 2024).
The circuit is one of the fastest and has a particularity: The cars revolve contrary to the clock needles.
*All schedules correspond to Argentina
