{"id":213348,"date":"2025-10-20T14:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/213348\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:53:08","slug":"we-will-review-and-deal-with-it-internally-alpine-disappointed-after-franco-colapinto-defied-team-orders-in-us-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/213348\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We will review and deal with it internally\u2019 \u2013 Alpine \u2018disappointed\u2019 after Franco Colapinto defied team orders in US GP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alpine Managing Director Steve Nielsen expressed his and the team’s disappointment after Franco Colapinto ignored a direct instruction to hold position behind team mate Pierre Gasly in the closing stages of the United States Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

As Sunday’s race neared its conclusion, Colapinto<\/a> was lapping in 18th place when he closed to the gearbox of Gasly\u2019s<\/a> Alpine<\/a> ahead of him. Despite being on five-lap fresher tyres than Gasly, and with Gabriel Bortoleto<\/a> chasing, Colapinto was instructed to remain behind the Frenchman and hold position, to which he replied: “Wait, what? Hold positions? But he\u2019s slow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taking matters into his own hands, the Argentinian dove to the inside at Turn 1 on the penultimate tour with an aggressive but clean lunge. As a result, he finished in 17th place, while Gasly dropped behind Bortoleto, to finish as the last runner.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOn Pierre’s side, we covered an undercut threat to box onto softs, a little earlier than we wanted, and then had a slow pit stop, which we will review and rectify,\u201d said Nielsen.<\/p>\n

\u201cFranco was able to extend his medium run to have a tyre delta towards the end of the race where he caught up to Pierre. We gave the instruction for the drivers to maintain position as we were managing fuel with both cars and the added variable of the number of laps remaining with the leaders in close proximity.<\/p>\n

“As a team, any instruction made by the pit wall is final and today we are disappointed that this didn’t happen, so it’s something we will review and deal with internally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking briefly on the incident after the Grand Prix, Colapinto defended his actions, saying: \u201cI had Bortoleto really close behind.<\/p>\n

“I was defending really hard and Pierre was very slow \u2013 he had older tyres or some kind of issue. I overtook him. I was very close, and I think it was the best for the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gasly added: \u201cI was a bit surprised, yeah, but I\u2019m not going to put it there. I think ultimately, we were just too slow and on the soft tyres, I spent my life fighting and ran out of life pretty early on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nielsen commented that Alpine have \u201ca lot to review across the board from this weekend,\u201d as the team\u2019s difficult season continued in Austin. With the Mexico City Grand Prix coming up in just a few days, there is minimal time to apply any lessons for the next leg of the World Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alpine Managing Director Steve Nielsen expressed his and the team’s disappointment after Franco Colapinto ignored a direct instruction…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-213348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}