Overview

• The Alpine rookie remains without a point in 2025, with a best of 11th at Zandvoort, as teammate Pierre Gasly accounts for the team’s 20 points and the outfit sits last in the standings.
• A Q1 crash in Baku derailed his most recent weekend, extending a run of incidents that has compounded a difficult adaptation.
• Flavio Briatore has limited the 2026 seat choice to Colapinto or reserve Paul Aron and has publicly set firm performance expectations.
• Briatore’s stance has swung from saying he was “not happy” before Zandvoort to praising that weekend as Colapinto’s strongest, and he has since suggested the mid-season promotion may have been premature.
• Colapinto says he is focusing on race-by-race gains and leveraging prior circuit knowledge from his 2024 Williams outings but concedes he is not getting up to speed quickly enough.