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🇭🇺 Franco Colapinto at the 2025 Hungarian GP

Franco completed a solid and hard-fought race at the Hungaroring, finishing P18 in a demanding GP, the last before the summer break

Published

06 Ago 2025

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5 min

🏁 Franco Colapinto and his race in Hungary

Hungarian Grand Prix 2025 – Hungaroring

📆 Date: 3 August 2025 📍 Location: Mogyoród, Hungary

📊 Qualifying: P14 📈 Final result: P18

🏆 Race results

🥇 P1: Lando Norris (McLaren) 🥈 P2: Oscar Piastri (McLaren) 🥉 P3: George Russell (Mercedes) P18: Franco Colapinto (Alpine) P19: Pierre Gasly (Alpine) ❌ DNF: BEA (Haas)

📝 Weekend summary

Franco Colapinto shone in qualifying with a solid P14, showing excellent pace in a challenging weekend. Despite a tough race with a difficult start and setbacks in the pits, the Argentine driver fought all the way to the end, finishing ahead of his team-mate and ready for the summer break.

The Hungaroring weekend was marked by Franco’s steady improvement. In the practice sessions, he focused on balance adjustments and overcoming grip limitations, earning positive feedback from the team. Despite the A525 posing challenges for both drivers, Franco made significant progress, reached Q2 and secured P14 on the grid — a very encouraging starting position for Sunday.

However, the race brought a true test. The start was the most critical moment: a loss of grip in the opening corners dropped him to P18. Throughout the race, Franco showed strong pace in clean air and battled hard at every opportunity, but time lost in the pit lane and the circuit’s overtaking difficulties limited his ability to climb back. Still, he completed the GP with determination and pride, finishing ahead of team-mate GAS — a sign of his consistent efforts.

🛠️ Weekend details Friday - FP1:

Franco completed 15 laps, focusing on balance, aerodynamics and traffic management. Best time: 1:17.464 (soft tyres).

Friday - FP2:

He ran various configurations on soft tyres, searching for stability and traction. Best time: 1:17.159.

Saturday - FP3:

The team made key improvements overnight. Franco completed 20 laps and finished P13 with a best time of 1:16.247 on softs.

Saturday - Qualifying:

- Q1: Despite the car feeling “hard to drive”, Franco stayed focused and nailed a solid lap to advance to Q2 in a very tight session. - Q2: Although he described the lap as “messy” due to oversteer, his effort paid off. A 1:16.159 placed him P15, which became P14 on the grid after ANT received a penalty for track limits.

➡️ Final result: P14

🏁 Race 🚦 Start:

Launched from P14 on medium tyres. Franco reported a lack of grip through the first corners, which caused the car to slide and lose positions down to P18.

🛞 Tyres used:

- Start: New mediums. - Lap 13: New hards. - Lap 35: Second set of new hards.

⚡ Fastest lap:

1:20.827 (Lap 37)

🏁 Final result:

P18, ahead of GAS

👀 Incidents and Safety Car

🚨 No Safety Car throughout the weekend. ❌ Retirements: BEA.

🌟 Key stats from Franco’s weekend

Sectors & Top Speed – Qualifying:

- Sector 1: 27.567 / 282 km/h. - Sector 2: 26.740 / 256 km/h. - Sector 3: 21.512. - Finish line: 264 km/h. - Speed trap: 310 km/h.

Sectors & Top Speed – Race:

- Sector 1: 29.225 / 283 km/h. - Sector 2: 28.765 / 247 km/h. - Sector 3: 22.776. - Finish line: 255 km/h. - Speed trap: 309 km/h.

📻 Team radio

La comunicación entre Franco y su ingeniero fue un ejemplo de trabajo en equipo. Durante las prácticas y la clasificación, se enfocaron en solucionar los problemas de balance y sobreviraje, con comentarios como “el auto no responde” o “tengo sobreviraje”. Trabajaron juntos para gestionar mejor el tráfico y encontrar el momento ideal para atacar o entrar a boxes. Durante la carrera, el ingeniero mantuvo el ánimo con frases como “Lo estás haciendo muy bien”, y Franco respondió con sinceridad, mostrando frustración en algunos momentos, pero también gratitud al final. La conexión fue sólida en todo el fin de semana.

🗣️ Franco Colapinto’s words

Franco made clear how difficult Sunday in Hungary was, saying, “It was not the best of days today and a difficult race for us as a team. He explained that, despite everything, the car felt good in clean air: “The pace was good at times in clean air and I had the same feeling as yesterday, I think we have taken a good step forward with the car which has given me confidence.” He noted that despite the good pace, setbacks limited him: “the blue flags and losing time in the pitlane, it really limited what we could achieve today. The initial start and getaway was good, but from there we fell back on the first lap and lost places. I was struggling with rear grip and sliding, which came back to us later in the race.” Franco also addressed the pit stop issues: “We opted for a two-stop and unfortunately, we encountered issues on both which meant we were held longer than we expected. As a team, we've been very good recently with pitstops, but these things happen in racing” Finally, he said he's focused on making the most of the summer break: “We need to use this opportunity to rest and reset and be ready to go again in Zandvoort and try to understand where we can keep making improvements.”

🎥 Relive the experience

Missed the race? Catch up on the full Hungarian GP coverage and live feed updates.

📸 Gallery & updates

Don’t miss a moment of Franco’s weekend! Check out the Hungarian GP photo gallery and follow all the summer break news on Franco’s official site: FC43.

🗓️ Next race

Dutch Grand Prix – Circuit Zandvoort

The Hungarian GP marks the start of the F1 summer break — a four-week pause for teams and drivers to recharge. But don’t worry, we’ll keep bringing you the best of Franco’s journey!

When racing resumes, we’ll be back at the Dutch Grand Prix 🇳🇱

- Weekend: 29–31 August 2025 - Race: Sunday 31 August, 15:00 🇳🇱 / 10:00 🇦🇷 / 14:00 🇬🇧

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