Franco Colapinto will run with Alpine F1 five GP from Icola

It is already 100% confirmed officially, Argentina He will have a Formula 1 pilot again on the starting grill with the return of Franco Colapinto. The Alpine tester pilot will occupy the seat with which Jack Doohan has played the first six races of the year and will do so from the next round, the GP de Emilia Romagna In Icola, and even at least the GP of Great Britain in July.

Thus, there is a great opportunity for Franco Colapinto, which played his first nine races last year replacing Logan Sarent in Williams, when he became the 23rd Argentine pilot in F1, the first in more than two decades (since 2001). In his first steps in the category, he left a great impression, but the Timing played against him when finding a seat as a starter for 2025.

When he broke into Formula 1 (in September), Williams already had his alignment closed with the signing of Carlos Sainz with Alex Albon, and also in July the rise of Jack Doohan to Alpine had already been closed. However, its rapid adaptation to the top of motor racing, near scoring in its first race and being 8 in the second, in Baku, made many look at it.

It rang for Red Bull when Czech Pérez’s future staggered, and also, especially for the advisor’s interest Flavio Briatorefor Alpine, which finally at the beginning of January this year announced him as one of his pilots reserves.

Since the beginning of the year there was talk of a possible Performance clause of Doohan, who contributes an important sum to the economy of the team. The Australian did not do much to dissipute those rumors, with an accident in the first round of the first race in Australia, a hard clash in the free training of Japan where he destroyed the car, and, after having shown an apparent improvement on Saturday in Miami, another incident in the first round of Sunday’s race.

In parallel, Colapinto was very valuable for the team with numerous sessions in the simulator and the factory for long hours on race weekends. And it has also been prepared with a mixture of that private simulation work and tests, such as the one that came to the light that made in Monza.

After publishing this week that Alpine would be deciding to align Colapinto in Icola, this Tuesday Alpine surprised announcing the resignation of Oliver Oakes, the director of the team and great support of Doohan. And, already with Brirator to the front, the puzzle has been completed.

Now, already on the track, Franco Colapinto will have to recover the sensations he left in his first races, since his end of the stage in Williams was not easy either: accident in Brazil, 14th in Las Vegas, accident in Saudi Arabia and fault in Abu Dhabi were his last four appearances.

The seventh position of Gasly at the Bahrain Grand Prix showed that Alpine has a potentially fast car this season, but in a very close battle in the middle zone of the grill, the team of Rod He has decided to replace Doohan with Colapinto in an attempt to place both cars in points of points regularly.

This is the second pilot change of the 2025 season even though we only have six races. Before, after only two great awards, Red Bull went down Lawson to team B and got into Tsunoda. This website was able to know that Red Bull then planned to get Collapint, but neither Alpine (nor Williams) were for the work.

Beyond his track actions, Colapinto generated a huge stir in his country and throughout Latin America not only for his talent but also because Open.

And from this May, the albiceleste illusion returns to formula 1.

When will Colapint debut with Alpine F1?

In the GP of Emilia Romagna that is played on the weekend the weekend from May 16 to 18. It will be the seventh test of the 2025 season, and after it there will be another 17 races this year, although it is not confirmed that the World Cup will complete.

In Isola, Colapinto will play his 10th Grand Prix in Formula 1, with which he will surpass Helmut Marko (yes, the famous Red Bull advisor played nine races in the early 1970s) and will match his account with Oliver Bearman, who will also take 10 and will go in parallel.

In fact, the premiere of Colapint in F1 2025 will be with a triplet in European circuits, three races in a row in Icola (May 18), Monaco (May 25) and Barcelona (June 1).