Franco Colapinto has endured a difficult return to the Formula 1 grid, since replacing Jack Doohan at Alpine. Now, it is being reported that options away from F1 are already being explored.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to Formula 1 Magazine, Colapinto’s days as an Alpine driver are numbered, with his management preparing for an exit from the pinnacle of motorsport.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Whilst Colapinto looks set to race in the Dutch Grand Prix after the summer break, it is increasingly unlikely he will be offered a seat by Alpine for 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As a result, it has been reported that the Argentinian’s management team are exploring options in IndyCar and the World Endurance Championship, should Alpine end its partnership with him.<\/p>\n
Colapinto has struggled ever since he replaced Jack Doohan from the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, and has failed to replicate the speed he demonstrated for Williams last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At Williams, Colapinto replaced Logan Sargeant from Monza until the end of the year, before being loaned to Alpine initially as its third and reserve driver.<\/p>\n
Despite Colapinto having shown good pace in 2024, he experienced several major accidents. That has continued at Alpine. Colapinto crashed in Imola qualifying and also in Silverstone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, his biggest crash of the year occurred last week at the Hungaroring, during a Pirelli tyre test. He crashed at the high-speed Turn 11, with images having shown a wrecked car.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Colapinto visited the medical centre where he was deemed as OK, although it cost F1’s tyre supplier significant data for next season’s tyres. The pressure is mounting on Colapinto, with a future in F1 looking unlikely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Franco Colapinto has endured a difficult return to the Formula 1 grid, since replacing Jack Doohan at Alpine.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3007,1687,3010,3008,3011,3009,831,372,6537,832,3006,3005,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-61927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61927","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=61927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}