The smile, in the end, appears. How will he not be drawn on his face if he stopped getting bored in that secondary role that he had to accept when he was over the nine races he had given him Williams And immediately the 20 seats of the 2025 season were completed? Yes, finally, a career of Formula 1the category with which he dreamed and for which he worked when at 14 he was left alone in Italy, from the Las Vegas GP. Although there have not been exceeds, although the previous day he has suffered the clash that he did not imagine in nightmares and this Sunday in the race the strategy has shattered for security cars, Franco Colapinto left imola happy Because the goal was to finish, take the A525 healthy to the garage of Alpine and add kilometers in A car that is not docile and behaves very different from that last year.
A car in which, in addition, the mechanics worked against clock. It is true, the crash had been frontal, so it had not affected the rear -where are the engine and the gearbox -nor the chassis, which allowed Alpine’s mechanics to work without breaking the firm parkwhat would have sent the Buenos Aires pilot to start from boxes, as he did Yuki Tsunoda. From a minute before entering a closed park until at 10 in the morning – five hours before the traffic light went out and the seventh GP of the season began here in Italy – it ended, the employees worked focused on the A525 tube. “Thank you very much for the hard work last night and put the pieces again together”Collapinto dedicated them in the radio communication of the previous return.
Shortly after the start, in the middle of the return, he went wrong and lost two positions, although he immediately recovered one why Esteban Ocon I was unforeseen to change compound. I didn’t go better to Pierre Gasly in the other Alpine, that some turns later, in his attempt to move on to Charles Leclerc, He made a mistake and went out hard, losing positions until he fell to the 14th place. But the worst part is that, he said later, he committed the performance and went on to leave tenth to arrive 13, outside the points.
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Franco, on the other hand, was not even close to entering the Top 10, something that was complicated in a circuit like this one 16 °. And although he did a very good job with a long stint with the yellow tire (23 turns), The development of the career killed him the strategy. He went to Ocon to leave that last position he had fallen but immediately the French stopped the Haas and forced the entrance of the Virtual Safety Carthat which not only took advantage Max Verstappen To make the free stop that led him to the triumph, but also the direct rivals for the positions of the Argentine they had not stopped and those who had done so (Bortoleto, Lawson and Gasly) but now they were left behind although with fresh tires.
He did not surprise, then, Alpine immediately sent the team order: Exchange positions, it was heard on the radio, after a second slower than Gasly turned in the last round. While the security car that came out when Some Antonelli He left allowed Colapinto to place another hard game, he was already sentenced to the 16th place. The positive? Although he pushed, the engine performance did not allow him to exceed and only went to the LECA with the right wheels but without damaging the car.
“Thanks for that” the Alpine team asked Franco Colapint to let Gasly pass.
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It was, at the end and after, The first weekend in a car whose performance is not only lower than that now Williams hasbut also to which the British team had given him for that last part of last season, when the improvements arose effect and temporarily placed the team in a sixth since he later lost -also started by the clashes and abandonments. Not for nothing Alpine is penultimate, but only for a point of difference with Sauberwhen in the preseason it was believed by what was shown in the essays that that ranking of the best of the rest was going to lead.
No, Alpine does not have that potential and even seems more focused on the 2026 season of the new regulations. “Surely that next year we can make a little more”collapint anticipated when Clarion He consulted him if he was not frustrated not rivals, when he won the best advancement of the F1 for Fernando Alonso in the United States Grand Prix, where he added one of his five points in the category.
Although you have not yet incorporated updates to this car -what will do later -, What worries most is motor performancea piece in which in the past Renault knew how to be so strong that he fed many of the team’s teams. Now, the last year with that power unit, since he signed a link with Mercedes from 2026, he lives as the worst farewell.
Franco Colapinto attack and a little Leca …
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With the exception of the Bahrain Grand Prix, where it was seventh, Gasly, who as a number 1 pilot is the one who has the priority in the improvements that can be made, was on the edge of the points in Australia (11 °) but was declassified in China -where he also did not fight for the top 8 in the sprint Race -, he finished 13 ° in Japan, Miami and now in Emilia Romagna and abandoned in Arabia Saudi for Yuki Tsunoda’s blow.
With that panorama of his teammate, Colapinto knows that the car has a large limit and that the focus must be put in the comparison with the French. There, there will be the key to his performance, one that was from minor to greatest in Icola, a circuit where he had harvested joys in the past (with triumphs in F3 and F2, exactly a year ago) and of which he left with a half smile, because, in short, he marked his return to the great circus, the place that nobody wants to leave even if he does not have the best car.
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