Helmut Marko addresses wild Franco Colapinto to Red Bull rumours
Helmut Marko explains why Red Bulꦜl did not turn to Franco Colapinto as🅺 a potential option for their driver dilemma.
Helmut Marko appears to have finally put to bed rumours linking168澳洲5最新开奖结果: 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5最新开奖结果: Liam Lawson with168澳洲5最新开奖结果: 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 of hefty crashes saw the team’s interes🍰t 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5最新开奖结果:Jack Doohan, who i♔s under pressure to perform iꦡn his rookie F1 season.
The rumours linking Colapinto with Red Bull came after Marko was seen in Alpine’s hospitality over th🍷e Chinese Grand Prix weekend as speculation o𒀰ver Lawson’s future was rife.
Marko has now revealed the reason for his Alpine visit and insisted Colap🐬into was not discussed during a catch up 🌱with team principal Oliver Oakes.
“Yes, I have a good relatio🍬nship ꦛwith Ollie Oakes,” Marko told .
“He has regularly run some of o𒆙ur drivers in his various teams across the j﷽unior categories.
“One of his drivers is currently racing in the British [F4, Fionn McL🐭aughlin], for example. That was the reason I met with him. Colapinto wasn’t a topic.”
Was Colapinto ever in the Red Bull frame?
Colapinto scored five points in nine starts for Williams but was overlooked was a candidate for Racing൩ Bulls in 2025.
But Red Bull instead decided to promote Formula 2 runner-up168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Isack Hadjar to partner Tsunoda.
Marko says Colapinto was 🔥never “a se🃏rious consideration” for Red Bull.
“Colapinto had a very strong debut in🐬 Formula 1,” ಞhe added. “And of course, you have to keep an eye on how things are developing.
“B🌼ut in the end, he wasn’t a serious consideration.
“We had Hadjar, who was consistently faster in Formula 2 than Colapinto and, as has now be🔜en proven, turned out to be the right choic🐼e.”
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