Alpine Formulation 1 driver Franco Colapinto has addressed the heated dialog proven between him and Flavio Briatore in the course of the newest season of Netflix’s Drive to Survive.
After changing Australian rookie Jack Doohan halfway by way of the 2025 season, the strain was on Colapinto to carry out alongside his skilled team-mate Pierre Gasly.
The second episode of the eighth season of Drive to Survive focuses on Alpine’s second-driver struggles and consists of an uncomfortable dialog between Briatore, Colapinto and Gasly.
“I’m going to sum up the scenario. We have to perceive that we haven’t been that nice till now. Let’s say that, between the 2 of you, Pierre has been higher. Now we’ve got to get some factors,” Briatore mentioned.
Colapinto responded, “We are able to strive one thing on my automotive,” earlier than Briatore minimize him off. “I don’t give a s***, OK? I determine what I’m doing. I determine,” the Alpine chief mentioned. “You’re the drawback, it’s a must to perceive. It’s important to enhance your efficiency. That’s important.”
Colapinto addressed the second forward of the 2026 season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
“I have not watched it, to be sincere. I do not actually eat that an excessive amount of,” he informed the media. “Particularly if you drive and also you’re within the paddock, you reside and know every thing that occurs. It is a terrific present, and it introduced a variety of followers to the game, and for that, we’re all very grateful with that additional quantity of those who form of turned followers after watching the sequence.”
Franco Colapinto, Alpine
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Requested to make clear the second proven within the Netflix docuseries, the Argentine added: “Flav has been, with me, very useful in each approach, and he gave me a terrific alternative, and I attempt to maximise it. I do not even know when it was filmed, however most likely he was proper on the time, you already know? When he shouts at me, there may be usually a motive for it.
“He is been a terrific chief, he is a terrific businessman, he is very profitable in each enterprise he is been at, and he manages to get the individuals to carry out. Generally otherwise to how others do, but it surely’s all nice studying.
“And in addition an understanding of the way you cope with completely different conditions. It’s extremely arduous for individuals to grasp the quantity of strain additionally everyone seems to be below in a race week, in a racing group. Not solely the drivers are below that quantity of strain, and it is a part of the game, I assume.”
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