Franco Colapinto third Alpine driver
Franco Colapinto third Alpine driver
Argentine Franco Colapinto è has joined the Alpine Formula 1 team, for which he will be a reserve driver for the 2025 season. "The 21-year-old Argentine has signed a multi-year contract and will have the role of test and reserve driver. His arrival will help expand the talent pool from which the team will be able to draw throughout the season", Alpine emphasizes in a note.
Colapinto thus leaves" the Williams team with which he took his first steps in Formula 1 and competed in the last nine gp of the 2024 season, being preferred to Logan Sargeant, and Flavio Briatore, Alpine’s executive adviser, has his eyes on him: "We are very pleased to have reached an agreement with Williams to engage Franco,” said the Italian manager.
Franco è clearly one of the brightest promises in motorsport right now. È it is fair to say that he surprised many people, including me, when he è first appeared on the grid".
"I can't wait to get started and see where this adventure" will take us, said Colapinto, whose arrival will put pressure on his Australian peer Jack Doohan, chosen by Alpine as Esteban Ocon's replacement alongside Frenchman Pierre Gasly.
