{"id":156984,"date":"2025-09-20T16:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156984\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T16:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:53:09","slug":"fornaroli-confirms-f1-talks-amid-alpine-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156984\/","title":{"rendered":"Fornaroli confirms F1 talks amid Alpine speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"date\">SEPTEMBER 20, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Leonardo Fornaroli has admitted he is already speaking with Formula 1 teams about 2026, as Alpine&#8217;s driver plans remain the subject of paddock gossip.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandprix.com\/display\/photo?photo_caption=Paul+Aron%2C+Italian+GP+2025&amp;photo_copyright=%C2%A9+Alpine&amp;photo_url=https%3A%2F%2Fphotos.grandprix.com%2Fjpeg%2Fraces%2Fpita25%2Ffri%2Falp%2Faron2-lg.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aron2-rd.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul Aron, Italian GP 2025<br \/>\u00a9 Alpine<\/p>\n<p>My manager and I are doing a great job and are starting to hold discussions with F1 teams for next year, the Formula 2 points leader told Sky Italia in Baku. <\/p>\n<p>I, however, am focused on the end of this season, with the goal of winning.<\/p>\n<p>That comes just days after reports linked the 20-year-old Italian with Alpine, where Flavio Briatore is weighing up options to partner Pierre Gasly next year.<\/p>\n<p>The speculation has fed into a reawakened silly season in Baku, with some suggesting Mercedes could place Kimi Antonelli at Williams &#8211; opening the door for Carlos Sainz to return to Brackley alongside George Russell.<\/p>\n<p>But journalist Roberto Chinchero told Sky Italia he doubts Antonelli is headed elsewhere. &#8220;He has a contract with Brackley, and I don&#8217;t think there will be any problems, especially if he gets good results in the next races. <\/p>\n<p>And the Williams option also seems difficult to me.<\/p>\n<p>Alpine advisor Briatore, meanwhile, appeared to rule out options like Fornaroli or Antonelli altogether.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a choice between Franco (Colapinto) and Paul (Aron), he said. &#8220;I have to figure out which of them is the best choice for the team.<\/p>\n<p>I need another race or two to make a decision.<\/p>\n<p>(GMM)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEPTEMBER 20, 2025 Leonardo Fornaroli has admitted he is already speaking with Formula 1 teams about 2026, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[944,855,884,911,898,64,63,839,840,892,936,937,922,864,868,843,512,874,906,897,817,836,904,848,845,826,837,813,835,816,867,876,894,841,842,833,908,887,860,909,930,914,939,886,934,832,834,858,941,875,861,850,870,854,900,866,846,880,943,889,878,823,881,863,933,935,910,859,913,844,923,927,896,926,883,938,932,806,805,824,803,804,901,871,852,849,888,872,891,915,822,838,918,916,857,879,893,869,931,885,924,847,882,851,865,925,928,942,929,85,920,921,902,862,919,917,873,940,905,912,895,853,856,877,819,903,899,907,890],"class_list":["post-156984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-adrian-sutil","tag-albers","tag-alesi","tag-ammermuller","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-autoracing","tag-autos","tag-badoer","tag-bahrain","tag-barcelona","tag-benetton","tag-bruno-senna","tag-button","tag-cars","tag-china","tag-david-coulthard","tag-davidson","tag-doornbos","tag-f1","tag-f1-racing","tag-fauzy","tag-felipe-massa","tag-fernando-alonso","tag-ferrari","tag-fia","tag-formula-1","tag-formula-one","tag-formula1","tag-giancarlo-fisichella","tag-gilles-villeneuve","tag-glock","tag-grand-prix","tag-grandprix","tag-grandprix-com","tag-hakkinen","tag-hamilton","tag-heikki-kovalainen","tag-hill","tag-hockenheim","tag-honda","tag-hungary","tag-ide","tag-indianapolis","tag-inside-f1","tag-insidef1-com","tag-jaime-alguesuari","tag-japan","tag-jaques-villeneuve","tag-jarno-trulli","tag-jenson-button","tag-juan-pablo-montoya","tag-kamui-kobayashi","tag-karthikeyan","tag-karun-chandhok","tag-kimi-raikkonen","tag-klien","tag-korea","tag-kovalainen","tag-kubica","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-liuzzi","tag-lucas-di-grassi","tag-magny-cours","tag-malaysia","tag-mansell","tag-mark-webber","tag-mclaren","tag-michael-schumacher","tag-minardi","tag-monaco","tag-montagny","tag-monte-carlo","tag-monteiro","tag-montreal","tag-monza","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-nakajima","tag-nick-heidfeld","tag-nico-hulkenberg","tag-nico-rosberg","tag-paffett","tag-pedro-de-la-rosa","tag-piquet","tag-prost","tag-racing","tag-racingcars","tag-red-bull","tag-renault","tag-robert-kubica","tag-rosberg","tag-rossiter","tag-rubens-barrichello","tag-san-marino","tag-sato","tag-sauber","tag-schumacher","tag-scott-speed","tag-sebastian-vettel","tag-sebastien-buemi","tag-senna","tag-silverstone","tag-singapore","tag-spa","tag-sports","tag-spyker","tag-super-aguri","tag-sutil","tag-timo-glock","tag-toro-rosso","tag-toyota","tag-trulli","tag-turkey","tag-valles","tag-verstappen","tag-vettel","tag-vitaly-petrov","tag-vitantonio-liuzzi","tag-webber","tag-williams","tag-winkelhock","tag-wurz","tag-yamamoto","tag-zonta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}