Franco
Colapinto

Franco Colapinto was born on 27 May 2003 in Pilar, Argentina. He started karting at the age of nine and won Argentine championships in different classes in 2016 and 2018. At fourteen he moved to Italy to pursue his racing career. He made his single-seater debut in 2018 in the Spanish F4 Championship with Drivex, and in 2019 he won the title there with eleven victories and ten pole positions.

In 2020 he finished third in the Formula Renault Eurocup with MP Motorsport and third in the Toyota Racing Series. In 2021 he took sixth place in the first season of the Formula Regional European Championship. That same year he also raced in the LMP2 class for G-Drive: third in the Asian Le Mans Series, fourth in the European Le Mans Series with a win at Le Castellet, and seventh in LMP2 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In FIA Formula 3 he was ninth in 2022 with Van Amersfoort Racing, winning twice, and fourth in 2023 with MP Motorsport, again with two wins. He made his Formula 2 debut at the final round of 2023 in Abu Dhabi, and in 2024 he won a race at Imola for MP Motorsport.

Colapinto was a member of the Williams Driver Academy from 2023 to 2024. At the 2024 British Grand Prix he took part in his first Formula One practice session. After the Dutch Grand Prix he replaced Logan Sargeant at Williams and made his debut at the Italian Grand Prix, finishing twelfth. He was the first Argentine to race in Formula One since Gastón Mazzacane in 2001. In the next race in Azerbaijan he finished eighth, becoming the first Argentine to score points since Carlos Reutemann in South Africa in 1982. Tenth place in the United States brought more points. After nine races he ended the 2024 season nineteenth in the standings, with five points.

In 2025 he joined Alpine as a test and reserve driver. After the Miami Grand Prix he took over the seat from Jack Doohan and made his debut for the team at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, finishing sixteenth. He kept the seat beyond the races first agreed. His best result that year was eleventh in the Netherlands, and he finished twentieth in the standings. In 2026 he continues at Alpine alongside Pierre Gasly. He finished tenth in China, his first championship point since his time at Williams, and sixth in Canada.

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