Overview
- After the Brazilian Grand Prix, where Franco Colapinto finished 13th and Pierre Gasly 14th, Colapinto told reporters he needs greater weekend-to-weekend consistency and faster adaptation when the car is out of balance.
- Colapinto pointed to difficulty finding setup solutions quickly between sessions and said the work engineers do from Friday to Saturday is key to arriving at a balanced car for qualifying.
- Alpine posted on social media that the team is “ready to give everything” for the final three races and said its immediate goal is to finish the season with good feelings rather than overhaul its Constructors’ position.
- The team is unlikely to overtake Racing Bulls for fifth in the Constructors’ Championship, leaving Las Vegas, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi as opportunities to extract strong individual results rather than change the standings.
- Colapinto and Alpine are already looking to 2027 because some of the A526’s core problems require deeper design changes that cannot be fixed race-to-race and will shape development priorities in the winter.