Max Verstappen assures that the option of his signing is “very attractive” for Formula 1. Fernando Alonso congratulates him on his debut and advises him to prepare well to take a place. Each of the appearances of Franco Colapinto (Pilar, Argentina, 21 years old) results in a viral conquest on social networks and the majority fervor of the young public. The final grid for 2025 has not been closed because there is a fever in Formula 1 in favor of its latest discovery. The Argentine has entered this sport like a howitzer, a strategic value due to his condition as a Latin American, although he has the most difficult test left: being a starter in a team and not a provisional, as now in Williams. Franco Colapinto returned Argentina to F1 23 years after its last driver, Gaston Mazzacane, who said goodbye to the Prost team in 2001. With him there are 24 Argentine drivers in the history of this sport, a tradition that links the country to the highest category of motorsport, with stars such as Juan Manuel Fangio and Carlos Reutemann. Argentina is a strategic locator as a representative of Latin America. In the same way that Bernie Ecclestone had stipulated by contract that there must be a Brazilian driver on the grid for the O Globo network to broadcast F1, Colapinto is the catalyst for ambitions and business in Argentina and other South American countries. Related News standard No Formula 1 Alonso’s team dismisses the designer of the Aston Martin that has failed in 2024 José Carlos Carabias standard No Formula 1 What does Verstappen have to do to be champion in the next race? José Carlos CarabiasThe impact that Colapinto has caused on Williams has caused the Argentine Secretary of Tourism, Daniel Scioli, to hold an interview with the CEO of F1, Stefano Domenicalli, with a view to organizing a future Argentine Grand Prix at the Autódromo Óscar and Juan Gálvez or at the Termas de Río Hondo circuit. «Beyond how Franco drives in the car, his charisma has mobilized young people to approach the F1. It is very important because all the conditions are being met in the country for us to think big. “Argentina was once again a safe destination,” said Scioli. Colapinto was educated in Italy and Spain. First in the Italian CRG kart team and then in the Fernando Alonso FA Karting structure associated with the Drivex team. In 2019 he won the Spanish F4 championship, miniature Formula 1. In 2022 he landed in F3 and in 2023 in F2, the prelude to F1, which he jumped into last summer in Logan Sergeant’s position. Debut and points Since making his debut at Monza, Colapinto has met expectations and sold the product for his charisma. He has always improved his position on the grid in the race and has scored points in two grand prix, eighth in Azerbaijan and tenth in Austin. But, above all, he has emerged because of his character. It was proven in the interview he did in ‘El Hormiguero’. Far from being embarrassed by the famous program, he did a ‘Sofía Vergara’ to the presenter Pablo Motos. Cutting responses in which it was not known if they were jokes or verbal forcefulness. «Maybe we don’t talk so much about Formula 1, because you have no idea. You are lost and you ask me every question…” he told Motos. “What’s wrong with ants’ eyes? What the hell is that name?” he responded to the stars of the program. Colapinto, who lives in Mallorca, has become a social media celebrity. Every time he speaks, he reaches the fan. “I am proud that he has supported me since I was a child and having grown up in his F4 team is something very nice,” he commented about Fernando Alonso. “I am not a millionaire boy from Europe who can run his entire life on his parents’ money,” he explained about his origin, with an Argentine lawyer father and a mother of Italian origin. “I’m focused on what I have to do, race by race, corner by corner.” Colapinto has generated debate at Williams, which signed Carlos Sainz for 2025 and in theory will lose the South American. And there is also debate in the Red Bull emporium, where there is a gap in the RB subsidiary or maybe two if ‘Checo’ Pérez leaves Red Bull. Franco Colapinto enters all of these pools, included in a hypothetical exchange that rumors lead to Carlos Sainz becoming Verstappen’s partner again.
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