🇳🇱 Franco Colapinto at the 2025 Dutch GP

Franco achieves his best result of the season and came close to scoring points with Alpine

Published

04 Sep 2025

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4 min

🏁 Franco Colapinto and his race in the Netherlands

An entertaining, eventful, and action-packed race. Congratulations on the great job, Franco.

Dutch Grand Prix – Zandvoort Circuit

📆 Date: 28-31 August 2025 📍 Location: Zandvoort, Netherlands 📊 Qualifying: P16 📈 Final result: P11

🏆 Race Results

🥇 P1: Oscar Piastri (McLaren) 🥈 P2: Max Verstappen (Red Bull) 🥉 P3: Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls) 🇦🇷 P11: Franco Colapinto (Alpine) 🇫🇷 P17: Pierre Gasly (Alpine) ❌ DNF: HAM, LEC, NOR

📝 Race Summary

Franco started P16 on new Soft tyres and quickly gained positions. His pace was consistent throughout the race, with three strategic pit stops: Lap 19 for Hards, Lap 53 for Mediums, and Lap 65 for Softs. The final stop under the last Safety Car allowed him to attack the cars ahead, finishing just short of the points.

Pierre Gasly, starting from P14, had a more challenging race, finishing P17 after a pit stop on lap 23, struggling against cars with fresher tyres.

Flavio Briatore highlighted that Franco probably had his best race of the season, managing strategy and traffic intelligently, while the team continues to push for maximising results with the tools available.

🛠️ Weekend details

- FP1: 27 laps, P18 – Best time 1:12.276. Solid adaptation to car and track. - FP2: 26 laps, P9 – Medium and Soft tyres – Best time 1:10.957, his best lap of the day with clear progress. - FP3: 21 laps, P20 – Best time 1:11.054. - Q1: P16 – 1:10.104. Narrowly missed out on Q2.

🏁 Race

🚦 Start:

Began P16 on Soft tyres, strong initial traction and early overtakes.

⬆️ Progress:

Gained 5 places with consistent pace and intelligent strategy. Excelled in tyre management and traffic.

🛞 Tyres used:

Soft → Hard → Medium → Soft.

⚡ Fastest lap:

1:13.049, set on the final lap – the quickest of all on that lap.

🏁 Final result:

P11, ahead of Pierre Gasly.

👀 Incidents & Safety Cars

🚨 Safety Car: Yes, multiple due to incidents with other drivers. ❌ Retirements: HAM, LEC, NOR. ✅ Franco: Clean race, no penalties, and his best result with Alpine.

🌟 Key stats

👉 Sectors & Speed

- COL finished 0.448s off OCO (P10). - Set his fastest lap on the last lap with 1:13.049, while the overall fastest of the race was 1:12.271.

👉 Sectors leaderboard

- Sector 1: COL P8 – 24.969 - Sector 2: COL P6 – 26.049 - Sector 3: COL P4 – 22.017

👉 Speedtrap leaderboard

- Sector 1: COL P10 – 291 km/h - Sector 2: COL P7 – 285 km/h - Finish line: COL P5 – 328 km/h - Speed trap: COL P10 – 325 km/h

📻 Team radio

Communication was clear and strategic: Franco followed instructions to swap positions with Pierre and attack the cars ahead. The team discussed strategy, weather, and possible adjustments. The highlight came after the chequered flag, when his engineer praised him: “Great race, Franco.”

🗣️ Franco Colapinto quotes

“It was a race where we came very close to scoring points as a team. I felt good on track and, in the end, achieved my best result of the season.”

“We made important strategic calls under the final Safety Car to attack the cars ahead. Even if it didn’t work out, there are many positives to take from the weekend.”

Flavio Briatore: “Franco probably had his best race of the season. Both drivers gave their maximum and worked as a team. We will keep pushing to maximise our results at every race.”

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🎥 Relive the full experience!

Missed the race? Catch up with the full live updates and coverage of the Dutch GP here.

🗓 Next race

Italian Grand Prix – Monza Circuit

📍 Monza, Italy. “I’m excited to return to Monza, the venue of my F1 debut last year,” said Franco after the race.

Race weekend: 5–7 September

Friday 5:

- FP1: 13:30 🇮🇹 / 08:30 🇦🇷 / 12:30 🇬🇧 (Franco will not race FP1) - FP2: 17:00 🇮🇹 / 12:00 🇦🇷 / 16:00 🇬🇧

Saturday 6:

- FP3: 12:30 🇮🇹 / 07:30 🇦🇷 / 11:30 🇬🇧 - Qualifying: 16:00 🇮🇹 / 11:00 🇦🇷 / 15:00 🇬🇧

Sunday 7:

- Race: 15:00 🇮🇹 / 10:00 🇦🇷 / 14:00 🇬🇧

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