Colapinto even higher: “Happy with 6th place, it’s based on the performance in Miami”

One step away from the top 5 Franco Colapinto’s performance in Formula 1 is constantly improving, and after an unconvincing start to the season he achieved his personal best result in the last Canadian Grand Prix. After the 7th place obtained in Miami, the Argentine driver took his Alpine to sixth position, completing a weekend in which the 22-year-old came close to reaching the points zone even in the Sprint race. There was no shortage of risks. An overall positive performance for the South American, who commented on his performance at the Montreal circuit as follows: “From where we started the weekend to a double points finish for the team, it’s a great result and a fantastic reward for everyone who worked hard. I’m very proud of the work we’ve done collectively and it’s a great team result today. It’s also my best result in Formula 1, which makes me very happy and builds on the performance we showed in Miami. We know we benefited from the other people’s bad luck, and it’s never a good feeling to take advantage of other people’s problems, but we maximized everything we could and brought the car home. There was very little grip and the track was slippery, especially at the beginning in the first laps with a harder tire compound than those around us. Luckily I hit it sideways and got away with it escaped with little damage which did not require repairs or affect performance. As we know, there is still more we need to do to be more competitive, improve the car’s performance and get closer to those ahead of us on merit.” Positive weekend for Alpine For Alpine, as mentioned by Colapinto, the Canadian weekend ended with both of its drivers in the points, for the second time after the Chinese GP. In that case it was Pierre Gasly who finished ahead of his teammate, with the final classification this time rewarding the Argentine, two places ahead of the Frenchman, 8th but proud of the work done with the team: “Overall, it’s an excellent team result and important points for the Championship – he declared – as far as I’m concerned, it was a result that limited the damage, allowing us to recover from a difficult weekend and get to this point with an eighth place, remaining in the points zone. Overall though, I had problems with the car again and, as a team, we need to understand why and try to solve some problems. There is a lot of work to do to get the car back to a good level and this is our aim from here to Monaco, we had a difficult start with the medium tyres, which were quite cold and with little grip at the start, but in the end we managed to recover some positions and then fight with Liam. [Lawson] in the finale. It was difficult to find a point to overtake him and we couldn’t, so we had to settle for eighth place. Now I can’t wait to race in Monaco. It’s my favorite circuit of the year, so hopefully we can resolve some of these issues and get there with more confidence and better performance.”

Automobile Magazine – F1 English News , 2026-05-25 22:00:00