Franco Colapinto: “Austria’s is a track that I know well”

The Argentine arrives at his fifth race with Alpine in F1 and will be in the short and fast layer of Spielberg, where he climbed to the podium with the F2 in 2024.

Franco Colapinto arrives at the Austria GP, 11th date of the 2025 season of F1, with the good personal feelings that he took from Canada, but with the concern about Alpine’s walk, a team that occupies the last place in the Cup of builders and that he penalized the lack of power in the semi -permanent of Montreal. On the Canadian track, the Argentine pilot had his best classification since he was anointed as head of the Estone team in replacement of Jack Doohan and ended up starting from the tenth drawer after the application of sanctions, but remained far from the points in the race with his A525.

Back in Europe, the F1 will run this weekend at Red Bull Ring and seek to continue its good step and get a jump with the walk of the car. “It was not the result we expected from the weekend in Canada, but we progressed well to session and showed that we had potential in the car. We just needed to continue working hard and continue advancing in the right direction before Austria. It is a clue that I know well for competing in junior categories, and went up to the podium in the main race of Formula 2 of last year. It is a real pilot circuit, which means that everything must be nail and maintain a constant rhythm, since the return time is very short. The pressure will be maximum to make sure to maximize it in the classification and thus have the best opportunity to add points in the race, ”said Colapinto.

Alpe. “We are concentrated and we know that we have to unite in everything during the weekend in Spielberg to add very important points for the team,” said the Argentine, Who in Austria will fulfill his fifth career in Alpine, that initial period that Flavio Briatore gave him when Collapinto was announced as a team pilot. The same Italian later said there were no deadlines (the five major awards was communicated by the team as a textual phrase of the Piedmontés) and that it was only performance. The Argentine arrives at Spielberg on the rise.