Franco Colapinto: “I’m supporting the team, I’m not a pilot yet”

The Alpine reservation provided an interview during a sponsors presentation event that the team organized in London, a while before the joint sample that the F1 did in the O2.

A while before the joint presentation of the 2025 season that Formula 1 organized at the London O2 Stadium, the Alpine team brought together its entire set to show its car, with the new sponsors that will be this year. There were the headlines, Pierre Gasly and Jack Doohan, and the three reservations: Franco Colapinto, Paul Aron and Ryo Hirakawa. The Argentine, who arrived at the French Team after his nine major awards with Williams in 2024, spoke in an interview with Telenoche, the news that is broadcast on Channel 13 of Argentina.

“In the nine races I tried to show that I deserved a place in F1 and Alpine made a very big effort to sign me. I am very grateful to be able to continue close to F1, ”said Colapinto. “The first four or five races that I had very good results and there were many teams that were interested in me. There were many calls to my managers and the people of Williams and there were several offers. Then, some were lost and Alpine was as the ideal option, which gives me more opportunities to have a armchair in the future.E s a pleasure to have a place in a team with such history, with Flavio Briatore and Luca de Meo, people who have the clear objectives, ”he added in reference to the executive advisor and the president of Renault.

Regarding the strong choice of Briatore for him, the Argentine said: “It is an honor that Brost has noticed me, that he wanted to hire was an honor, because it was the one who found Schumi (by Michael Schumacher), who created Fernando (for Alonso), someone with a lot of history in F1 . He plays it for what he feels and where he has to go and for now he was not wrong, ”said Franco. Well it is to remember that Briatore was also the intellectual author of the Crashgate of Singapore 2008 …

Regarding Differences found between Williams and Alpine, Colapinto said: “There are many things that change from one team to another. The truth is that this first month I worked with them was very positive. I bring different things from Williams in terms of systems, steering wheel, set up. The idea is to put both together and capable that one has better things than another. ”

He also referred to the accidents he suffered in Brazil and Las Vegas and the risk he took: “You can see that I am risky, in the last races it showed a little more. There are times to take risk, sometimes it goes well. In F1, when you spend 2% of trust, make an error. Because it is all very precise in F1. Finding the right point is difficult and when you have nine roads and you do not have a secured armchair for the following year, there are many things that come into play and want to give everything in each way out on the track and many times that happens a little. I stay with what we did with the team, how good we work and the dream of having run in F1 ”.

Finally, Collapinto is coming from the rumors that place him sooner rather than later in a armchair as a starter in 2025: “I am supporting the team and I am not a pilot yet. I don’t know when I will be. My work is to help the team to add points that is our goal this year. ”