More than a debut: Franco Colapinto’s return to Formula 1

More than a debut: Franco Colapinto’s return to Formula 1

Can you imagine leaving your homeland at 14—your family, your friends, your language—to chase something uncertain? Holding on to that decision year after year, with no guarantees? That’s the path F1 driver Franco Colapinto chose. Today, it brings him back to Formula 1—not as a reserve driver, but as part of Alpine’s main line-up. His journey began in Pilar, Argentina, a city in Buenos Aires Province. He discovered motorsport at age 9 and quickly…

Briatore. Flavio Briatore. He has more of a Devil than of a human being. The most fussy kid who has passed through Formula 1 in recent years. He will remain a boy even if he reaches a hundred years. The man who made Alpine the world champion. When Alpine was called Renault in Formula 1. The team manager who led Fernando Alonso to win his only two world titles. He has managed to resurrect Esteban Ocon, whom the leaders of the great circus had tak…

As had happened last year with Globant, the return to the tracks of the Argentine rider also has its commercial correlation: in the last few hours a new partner, Latin Securities, was incorporated, a financial company of national origin that joined giants like Mercado Libre. Flavio Briafore, who sponsored sportfully Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso in the past, will lead the Argentine and Pierre Gasly to get the Alpine out of the backgroun…

French driver Pierre Gasly expressed his support for Flavio Briatore, who recently took over as team leader in Alpine after Oliver Oakes' resignation, in the decision to add Argentine Franco Colapinto as the second pilot for the Imola Grand Prix.Amid a series of strategic decisions, the team announced the replacement of Jack Doohan by Argentine Franco Colapinto from the Imola Grand Prix, which generated various reactions in the Formula 1 world.G…

"It is pushing the team in an impressive way, looking for the maximum performance of each department and striving to the limit to put the team in a better position," said Pierre Gasly, now a new Argentine partner. Details.

The landing of Franco Colapinto as a starting pilot in Alpine instead of Jack Doohan continues to generate repercussions. This time it was Facundo Regalia, another Argentine with a past in the F2, who went out to speak and undressed a hot intern inside the French squirery. According to his version, the short circuit between Flavio Briatore and Oliver Oakes was directly by the designation of Colapinto, which would have resulted in the British’s r…