🇺🇸 Franco at the 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix
Challenging weekend for Colapinto, finishing P15
Published
26 Nov 2025
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Franco at the 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix
Las Vegas Grand Prix – Las Vegas Strip Circuit
📆 Date: 20–22 November 2025
📍 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
📊 Qualifying: P15
📈 Final result: P15
🏆 Race results
🥇 P1: Verstappen (Red Bull)
🥈 P2: Russell (Mercedes)
🥉 P3: Antonelli (Mercedes)
🇫🇷 P13: Pierre Gasly (Alpine)
🇦🇷 P15: Franco Colapinto (Alpine)
❌ DNF: Albon, Bortoleto, Stroll
❌ Disqualified: Norris (previously P2), Piastri (previously P4)
Race summary
The Las Vegas Grand Prix posed a challenge for all drivers with a demanding and competitive street circuit. Franco Colapinto completed the race managing the pressure of the lower-midfield, ensuring his Alpine crossed the line without major incidents.
From the start, Franco was involved in contact on the first lap from Alex Albon, which caused diffuser damage and a loss of downforce for the remainder of the race. Despite this, he maintained a consistent pace, avoided mistakes in the trickier sections, and overtook drivers who retired or were disqualified, demonstrating focus and consistency.
Franco Colapinto commented:
“It wasn’t the best result after the contact from behind at the start that damaged my car. I tried to avoid the chaos in turn 1, but I was hit by Albon. The car balance was poor and we lost rear grip. It’s a shame, but in races like this, things happen beyond your control. Now we have to look ahead and finish the season on a positive note.”
The weekend’s balance shows valuable lessons for Franco, and with that mindset, we close the penultimate weekend of this season.
🛠️ Weekend details
Free practice:
FP1: P20: 1:36.758.
FP2: P16: 1:34.824. Challenging conditions due to light dampness and two red flags; Franco remained competitive amid uncertainty.
FP3: P16: 1:36.305. With a partially wet track, Franco maintained stable performance, overtaking HUL and TSU.
Qualifying:
The weather impacted the session, with heavy rain, low visibility, and full wet tyres. Franco was eliminated in Q2 after saving a major oversteer through turns 14–16, securing P15 on the grid.
Q1: 1:54.847
Q2: 1:53.683
Final grid: P15
The official F1 account highlighted his save through the final chicane.
🏁 Race
🚦 Start:
Started P15, suffered contact from ALB on the first lap that damaged his diffuser and compromised car balance.
⬆️ Progress:
Managed the race without major incidents, staying in the lower-midfield.
🛞 Tyres used:
Started on new hard tyres, pit stop on lap 25 for new mediums.
⚡ Fastest lap:
1:35.780 on lap 38 with mediums.
🏁 Final result: P15
👀 Incidents and Safety Car
🚨 Chaotic start: collisions at turn 1 involved Bortoleto, Colapinto and Stroll; Albon and Antonelli received penalties for breach of start procedures and causing collisions. Virtual Safety Car deployed several laps, with the race ultimately clean after incident management.
❌ Retirements: ALB, BOR, STR
🌟 Sector times and speed
Sector 1: 27.263s / 182 km/h
Sector 2: 31.781s / 320 km/h
Sector 3: 36.402s
Final straight: 320 km/h
Speed trap: 337 km/h
📻 Team comms
It was smooth and constant, with clear strategy instructions and technical feedback; at the end of the race, the team advised him to stay focused for the last two GPs and finish the season with positive results.
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🗓 Next race
Franco is already focused: “We need to look ahead and finish the season positively in the last two races in Qatar and Abu Dhabi.”
Qatar Grand Prix – Lusail International Circuit
📍 Lusail, Qatar
🗓 Weekend: 28–30 November 2025
Friday 28 November:
FP1: 16:30 🇶🇦 / 13:30 🇬🇧 / 10:30 🇦🇷
SPRINT QUALI: 20:30 🇶🇦 / 17:30 🇬🇧 / 14:30 🇦🇷
Saturday 29 November:
SPRINT: 17:00 🇶🇦 / 14:00 🇬🇧 / 11:00 🇦🇷
QUALI: 21:00 🇶🇦 / 18:00 🇬🇧 / 15:00 🇦🇷
Sunday 30 November:
RACE: 19:00 🇶🇦 / 16:00 🇬🇧 / 13:00 🇦🇷
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