Helmut Marko addresses wild Franco Colapinto to Red Bull rumours
Helmut Marko explains why Red Bull did not turn to Franco Colapiꦕnto as a potential option for their driver dilemmꦑa.
Helmut Marko appears to have finally put to bed rumours linking168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Franco Colapinto with Red Bull.
Spanish media reports linked Colapinto, who is Alpine’s reserve driver for 2025, to Racing Bulls as a possible option for the team before the decision to swap168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Liam Lawson with168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Yuki Tsunoda was announced.
Colapinto caught Red Bull’s attention with his impressive early displays as a late-season replacement for Logan Sargeant at Williams last year, before a series o🀅f hefty crashes saw the team’s interest in the 21-year-old Argentine cool.
Having missed out on a full-time seat, Colapinto signed for Alpine in a reserve role as he waits in the wings to potentially replace 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Doohan🍸, who is under pressure to perform in his rookie F1 season.
The rumours linking Colapinto with Red Bull came after Marko was seen in Alpine’ওs hospitality over the Chinese Grand Prix weekend as speculation over Lawson’🅷s future was rife.
Marko has now revealed the reason for his Alpine visit and iꦓnsisted Colapinto was not discussed during a catch up with team principal Oliver Oakes.
“Y💝es, I hav▨e a good relationship with Ollie Oakes,” Marko told .
“He has regularly run some of our drivers in his various tea💞ms across the junior categories.
“One of his drivers is currently racing in the British [F4, Fionn McLaughlin], for ൲example. That was the reason I met with him. Colapinto w𓆉asn’t a topic.”
Was Colapinto ever in the Red Bull frame?
Colapinto scored five points in nine starts for William❀s but was overlooked was✃ a candidate for Racing Bulls in 2025.
But Red Bull instead decided to promote Formula 2 runner-up168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Isack Hadjar to partner Tsunoda.
Marko says Coဣlapinto was never “a serious ꦫconsideration” for Red Bull.
“Colapinto had a very strong debut in Formula 1,” he added. “And of course, you have to keep an eye on how things 🅰are developing.
“But i🍎n the end, he wasn’t a serious consideration.
“We had Hadjar, who was consistently faster in Formula 2 than Colapinto and, as has ⛦now been proven,ไ turned out to be the right choice.”
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