Franco Colapinto struggled how he could in Singapore

The Alpine team opted for a different strategy with the Argentine, but did not work. He lost performance in the end and crossed the goal 16.

“We are going to do a little crazy strategy and see what happens,” Franco Colapinto confessed in talk with AM850 before starting the boring Grand Prix of Singapore. The Argentine had to start since the 16th place after advancing two positions to its classification result thanks to the exclusion of the Williams and Alpine tried to do something different to try to alleviate the chronic weakness of the A525. But nothing came out: the Buenos Aires suffered the competition and in the final part, already without rhythm with very worn tires, He lost positions to look 16, as he had started.

Alpine decided that the 43 start with soft tires to try to be fast in the first part. And the start was the best for Franco. Recalling his good departure in the urban of Marina Bay of 2024, again the Argentine won positions. He surpassed Lance Stroll, Gabriel Bortoleto and Yuki Tsunoda to be 13º. Of course, last year with a Williams could defend himself, but this season, with the worst car of the grill, little can be done.

Taking the start, the rest of the race was a torture for collapint. As soon as he turned 15 laps with the soft tire and in that crazy strategy, they decided to put average tires. Maybe, betting on the entry of a security car, Almost a fixed in Singapore, but that this time did not happen. The others who chose to start with soft went hard to make sure to reach a good rhythm. It was not the case of Estone Team.

Without safety car, Collapint had no choice but to do 47 laps with those average covers. Already on the end, his rhythm was destroyed. On Vuelta 59 they took number to overcome it those who, in reverse, chopped with hard and ended with soft. Alpine had become a cone on the track. In the same turn, it was surpassed by Stroll, Alex Albon and Liam Lawson.

“A very frustrating race. I put a lot a disappointed collapint at the end of the Singapurense ordeal.

Franco was 16th and it could have been worse. He had no way to defend himself, they hardly needed the rivals to spend it in the end. I had no weapons to do anything. The most important thing for the Argentine is that he showed again that in the context of the extreme weakness of Alpine, he had rhythm again. From the Hungary GP onwards, the Argentine is at the level of Pierre Gasly and even defeated it in four of the last five classifications. That is the positive and the credentials that it can show so that, in the end of October, when Flavio Briatore determines who will be the gasm’s partner in 2026, his name is above all others. It is known that in the world of F1 not only the sports is handled, there is also the economic.

In the last racing quintet, Colapinto was shown at the level Alpine can give. You can’t do much more and you can’t. Briatore decided to throw 2025 to fully develop the 2026 car, which will be completely new to the change of regulations. The Piedmontés bet is strong, because it will not have a margin of error. For now, while Colapinto and Gasly suffer from A525, the defense is that the best thing is yet to come. The problem will be if it does not come …