Alpine<\/a> livery for the event \u2013 in the Palermo neighbourhood on April 26, in his home city of Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n\u201cDriving at home in a Formula 1 car will be one of the most special moments of my life,\u201d said Colapinto upon the announcement.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s my way of giving back, even just a little, for all the support and love I’ve received since I was very young, which pushes me every day to keep dreaming of achieving all my career ambitions.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery message, every flag, and every cheer has always been there. This is for all of you, to enjoy this special moment together.\u201d<\/p>\n
As part of the event \u2013 known as Mercado Libre presents: Franco Colapinto Road Show Buenos Aires 2026 \u2013 Avenida del Libertador and Avenida Sarmiento will be transformed into a 2km street circuit, where two official show runs will take place.<\/p>\n
Unique fan and guest experiences, a fan forum and music acts, plus other exciting activities are also set to feature in the day\u2019s festival, which will be institutionally supported by the Government of the City of Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n
It comes as the 2026 F1 season embarks on a break between races in April, with the next event on the calendar being the Miami Grand Prix<\/a> on the weekend of May 1-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Franco Colapinto is set to become the first Argentinian to drive an F1 car on the streets of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-574569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}