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🏁 Azerbaijan GP 2025: Franco Colapinto’s full weekend

Franco had a good start in Baku, moving up positions

Published

22 Sep 2025

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3 min

🇦🇿 Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2025 – Baku City Circuit

📆 Date: 19–21 September 📍 Location: Baku, Azerbaijan

📊 Qualifying: P16 📈 Final result: P19

🏆 Race Results

🥇 P1: Max Verstappen (Red Bull Racing) 🥈 P2: George Russell (Mercedes) 🥉 P3: Carlos Sainz (Williams) 🇫🇷 P18: Pierre Gasly (Alpine) 🇦🇷 P19: Franco Colapinto (Alpine) ❌ DNF: PIA

📌 Grand Prix Summary

Check all the live updates we shared during the official broadcast.

The 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix on the streets of Baku was a demanding race for Alpine and all the drivers. On Saturday, qualifying was marked by six red flags – an absolute record in a single session. One of them was caused by Franco, which left him P16 despite showing good pace that could have taken him into Q2.

In the race, Colapinto started from P16. After the initial red flag due to PIA’s crash on lap 1, racing resumed on lap 4 following the Safety Car. Franco climbed to P13 early on, showing strong pace, but on lap 17, while battling ALB into turn 5, he was hit and sent into the wall. Although he was able to continue, the car suffered aerodynamic damage and he lost performance. He finished P19, while his teammate Gasly ended in P18.

🔧 Weekend Details

Friday 19

FP1: P19 – 1:45.299 / Gasly: P20 FP2: P20 – 1:43.322 / Gasly: P16

Saturday 20

FP3: P15 – 1:42.789 / Gasly: P19 Quali: P16 – 1:42.779 / Gasly: P19

Sunday 21

- Stints: Mediums (16 laps) → Hards (34 laps). - Position changes: P14 (lap 2), P13 (lap 6), P16 (lap 17 after pit), P19 (lap 18), P18 (lap 37), P19 (lap 49).

Speeds: - Sector 1: P11 – 210 km/h - Sector 2: P11 – 217 km/h - Finish line: P16 – 337 km/h - Speed Trap: P13 – 326 km/h

🚦 Race

Start:

Moved from P16 to P14 on lap 2 and reached P13 on lap 6.

Pit stop:

Lap 16, switched to hards.

Incident:

Lap 17, battling ALB, was hit at turn 5 and spun. He lost pace with aerodynamic damage. ALB received 10 seconds for causing the collision.

Finish:

Franco finished P19.

Franco’s summary:

- P19 – 50/51 laps – 1:33:26.408 (+1 lap). - Best lap: 1:46.055 (lap 40). - 1 pit stop on lap 16 (21.088s).

📻 Radio

During the race, Franco said: “After the pit stop I was fighting with ALB and he touched me, which cost me a lot of time. The car didn’t feel the same afterwards, surely with some damage.” At the end of the day, his engineer congratulated him: “Not our day, but you drove very, very well. We keep seeing progress.”

💬 Franco’s Statements

He finished a bit sadder than we’d like, but he still said some good things: “I want to thank the team for all their work this weekend. The start was positive and we were in a good position, but after the contact with ALB the race was ruined. The car was damaged and it was impossible to recover.”

And, as we mentioned during the Live Feed, even if the motivation was a little low, the fighting spirit and the support from Fran Club 43 never fade: “We need to keep pushing and make the most of every opportunity that comes.”