🇲🇽 Mexico GP 2025: Franco Colapinto Race Report

Franco wrapped up an intense weekend in Mexico, finishing P16

Published

28 Oct 2025

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4 min

🏁 Franco Colapinto and His Race in Mexico

Mexican Grand Prix 2025 – Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez

📆 Date: 24–26 October 2025 📍 Location: Mexico City, Mexico

📊 Qualifying: P20 📈 Final result: P16

🏆 Race Results

🥇 P1: Lando Norris (McLaren) 🥈 P2: Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) 🥉 P3: Max Verstappen (Red Bull Racing) 🇫🇷 P15: GAS (Alpine) 🇦🇷 P16: COL (Alpine) ❌ DNF: LAW, HUL, ALO, SAI

Check the full live coverage and all our Mexico weekend updates here.

📝 Race Summary

The Mexican Grand Prix proved to be a demanding race for Franco and the Alpine team, defined by tyre management and constant traffic on a circuit where overtaking opportunities are limited.

Starting from P20, Franco delivered a clean race with no incidents, executing a one-stop strategy. He began on hard tyres and switched to softs on lap 48, the longest individual stint of any driver on Sunday, making the most of the lighter car in the final stint to improve his pace. Although his car lacked the expected performance on the straights, Franco remained consistent and finished P16, right behind his teammate Pierre Gasly (P15).

It was a race of endurance and learning, where he stood out for his consistency, technical communication with the team, and strong pace in the closing laps on fresh tyres.

Weekend Details

FP1: P9 – 28 laps – 1:19.331 FP2: P18 – 31 laps – 1:18.721 FP3: P19 – 22 laps – 1:18.581 Qualifying: P20 – 8 laps – 1:17.670

🏁 Race

🚦 Start:

From P20 on hard tyres.

🛞 Strategy:

One stop to change to soft tyres on lap 48.

⚡ His fastest lap:

1:21.342, lap 50, on soft tyres.

🏁 Final result: P16.

👀 Incidents and Safety Car

- Retirements: LAW, HUL, ALO, SAI. - No red flags during the race. - A Virtual Safety Car was deployed in the final laps to remove SAI’s car from the track. The remaining retirements were withdrawn in the pits.

Key Data

- Sector 1: 28.708 - Sector 2: 31.548 - Sector 3: 21.038 - Speed trap: 346 km/h

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📻 Team Radio

Throughout the race, Franco maintained steady communication with his engineer, reporting grip evolution, balance adjustments and temperature management. The team prioritised tyre preservation and race consistency, closing the event without mistakes and collecting valuable data ahead of Brazil.

Franco’s Comments

“Other than the promising pace we showed in the last stint on the Soft tyres with lower fuel, it was a long and lonely afternoon for us” said Franco after Sunday’s race in Mexico City. “We went long on the Hards to start, aiming to capitalise on any potential opportunities, and we lacked a bit of pace to really stay in the mix. There's not much else to elaborate on or takeaway from this weekend, which has been a difficult one for the team. We will keep learning, keep fighting and hope to be more competitive in Brazil.”

Franco and all of us are very happy to be able to continue on our continent, so he added: “I'm excited to be going back to São Paulo to race in front of the South American fans. Last year there were a lot of emotions that weekend for various reasons and this year I want to go and enjoy it and look forward to seeing the fans supporting me, even if the results are not there at the moment.”