{"id":854401,"date":"2026-08-11T17:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/854401\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:26:09","slug":"franco-colapinto-targeted-by-thieves-during-formula-1-summer-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/854401\/","title":{"rendered":"Franco Colapinto targeted by thieves during Formula 1 summer break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alpine driver Franco Colapinto fell victim to a robbery at Lake Como during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/series\/single-seater\/formula-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1\u2032<\/a>s summer shutdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thieves targeted the 23-year-old Argentine while he was holidaying at the Italian lake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The stolen items included personal clothing and his traditional mate tea preparation set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colapinto initially detailed the incident on social media, writing: \u201cWho would have thought that Italians would steal everything from a Latino. I\u2019m sure they won\u2019t like the mate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The original post triggered online backlash over his comment regarding safety in Italy compared to Argentina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colapinto later amended the wording from \u201cItalians\u201d to \u201cEuropeans\u201d before deleting the post entirely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly after, the Alpine driver shared pre-robbery images of the missing items with a follow-up caption: \u201cLast photos of these clothes, mate, etc., etc. I hope those who\u2019ve snapped them up enjoy them!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colapinto joins a growing list of F1 drivers targeted by thieves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Charles Leclerc lost a custom watch near Imola in 2022, while former teammate Carlos Sainz famously chased down thieves to recover his stolen watch outside a Milan hotel in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reigning World Champion Lando Norris also suffered a high-value watch theft at Wembley Stadium in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident comes amidst a strong on-track resurgence for Colapinto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following a difficult debut year with Team Enstone in 2025, the Argentine has turned his form around in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/results\/2026\/races\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026<\/a>, scoring points in six of the opening 11 rounds to keep Alpine firmly in midfield contention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2d02858a0d77fabdeef8909816b3448a wp-block-paragraph\">READ MORE \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/2026\/08\/11\/lewis-hamilton-eighth-f1-title\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton handed bleak eighth F1 title verdict despite Ferrari form<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alpine driver Franco Colapinto fell victim to a robbery at Lake Como during Formula 1\u2032s summer shutdown. Thieves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[1035,49,48,578,576,577,1036,82],"class_list":["post-854401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-alpine","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-franco-colapinto","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854401","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=854401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}