Colapinto lost control at the Hungaroring\u2019s high-speed Turn 11<\/a>, slamming into the barriers during the second day of Pirelli\u2019s post-race testing programme.<\/p>\nThe car suffered heavy damage, but the Argentine driver was assessed at the circuit medical centre and declared uninjured.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring Day 2 of Pirelli Tyre Testing at the Hungaroring this morning, Franco Colapinto had an incident at Turn 11,\u201d Alpine said in a statement. \u201cFranco was assessed on site at the medical centre and is OK.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the crash occurred during a session dedicated to trialling the narrower tyres that will accompany F1\u2019s sweeping regulation overhaul in 2026, Pirelli\u2019s motorsport boss Mario Isola made clear the incident was not tyre-related.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese have been two useful days for making progress with the development of our compounds for next season, given that we are now entering the home straight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Hungaroring is a demanding track due to its many slow curves and the amount of energy that goes into the tyres on a lap that is rather short.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis makes it a challenging place to test tyres, in particular for the compounds that will be central to the 2026 range \u2013 which will go from C1 to C6 like this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have collected a lot of data, although it was a pity that we lost some of our potential mileage today when Colapinto went off the track, even though this was not in any way linked to the tyres.\u201d<\/p>\n
Isola added that useful data had been gathered on the compounds\u2019 construction ahead of further testing later this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs for construction, we have verified our final solutions as far as homologation is concerned, ahead of the regulations coming on September 1,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy contrast we now have three further test sessions \u2013 in Monza, Mugello and Mexico City \u2013 to conclude the development of the compounds, whose homologation is due on December 15.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pirelli\u2019s revised 2026 tyres will be 25 millimetres narrower at the front and 30 millimetres at the rear compared to the current generation. Four teams \u2013 Alpine, McLaren, Ferrari and Racing Bulls \u2013 took part in the two-day test in Hungary.<\/p>\n
Colapinto had been sharing the driving duties with Pierre Gasly, but his off early on Wednesday cut short his contribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pirelli have distanced themselves from Franco Colapint’s Hungarian tyre test crash. Image: XPB Images Colapinto lost control at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,1802,34524,85],"class_list":["post-49857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-franco-colapinto","tag-pirelli","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49857","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=49857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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