Franco Colapinto kicked the board with Alpine in the Netherlands

The Argentine pilot showed his disagreement with the race management in Zandvoort and pointed to his partner Pierre Gasly for not giving him the place faster in the final part.

Franco Colapint He arrived quickly to the press corral in Zandvoort. He had barely spent a handful of minutes after the race, when The Argentine pilot stopped at the microphones, including AM850. He had just closed his best career since his landing in Alpine, with the 11th since he left him at one step away from the points. Adding for the first time with Estone’s Team was a concrete chance, but at the end of the race He met Pierre Gasly, who decided not to give up a centimeter at his partner’s attack. Although the Buenos Aires had new soft tires, against the hard old man of the French, Pierre did not give him anything. Until the late message came from boxes to exchange positions, but it was too late. There was a return and the chance of attacking Esteban Ocon to keep the last unit was a utopia.

Then, Colapinto could have chosen to be politically correct, but chose to go to the bone and kick the board. Will the Argentine know something that the rest is not? The review of the Dutch weekend finds the strong statements of Flavio Briatore, the mandamás of the Team de Estone, during the Press Conference of Team Directors on Friday. “Maybe it was not time to have Franco in Formula 1. Maybe I needed another year to be part of Formula 1. I am not happy with the result. The important thing is the result. It really is not what I expected from Collapinto,” the Italian Pope shot.

The French medium Autohebdowith Alpine, he anticipated that Franco will not continue in 2026 and that his place will be occupied by Yuki Tsunoda or Paul Aron. Everything that happened, there is no doubt, it reached the ears of collapint. That burden, added to the fact that his partner did not provide the collaboration he expected, took Franco to make a heavy statement, which will surely have caused a cimbronazo inside doors and will force some long meeting in the short week that there is until the start of the GP of Italy next weekend.

“I took advantage of my opportunities, but we needed to do a better team job. It was a good career. I think it was very easy to add a point today, you didn’t have to strive too much”the Argentine started. Consulted On the situation with Pierre, he said: “Better not to speak, then we will do it with the team. I am sad because today I could have added one or two points. Now you have to focus on the next one. I feel that we do not help each other between us, we are teammates and we did not do things well during the race. You have to focus a little on being more secure what to do at all times. ”The message was double, Gasly and Alpine, when asking for focus.

To close, Colapinto took its positive part: “It was a good weekend, I am more comfortable with the car, more consistent.” Now it is only about waiting for Alpine to announce the duo by 2026. Franco, it is known, has a race race and or its arrival at the end of 2025 is completely assured. With the running of the weeks, it will be known if Zandvoort’s thing was momentary anger, response to Briatore’s statements or rebellion for something that, perhaps, already told him.