Williams driver Franco Colapinto has dismissed rumours he’s within the body for a seat at Pink Bull’s RB Method 1 group, suggesting he might be on the sidelines in 2025.
Colapinto wowed the F1 paddock together with his sturdy performances and calm perspective as a mid-season alternative for Logan Sargeant at Williams. In his 5 races up to now, the Argentinian scored 5 factors and by no means completed decrease than twelfth, with one other combative show at Sunday’s Mexican Grand Prix going unrewarded.
There isn’t a room for Colapinto as an everyday driver at Williams subsequent yr, with the group having already signed Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, who gained Sunday’s grand prix, to fit in alongside Alex Albon.
However the 21-year-old’s type has turned sufficient heads for him to be thought-about at Sauber and at Pink Bull, which can have a slot at its RB group for Colapinto to fit into.
However whereas there have been informal talks between Williams and Pink Bull, with Williams group boss James Vowles keen to mortgage his reserve driver out, Colapinto has dismissed strategies he could possibly be on the F1 grid subsequent yr.
“No, in the mean time, I do not perceive a lot of what they’re speaking about. I do not know from the place it got here from,” Colapinto informed F1 TV.
“I haven’t got any seat for subsequent yr, and in the mean time, I am not racing Method 1. I am in all probability going to be racing elsewhere.
“So look, it’ll be perhaps a yr that I am not going to be right here, however I hope to be exhibiting that I deserve a seat right here sufficient to return again in ’26 or ’27. It’s my purpose, and it is why I am doing what I can race after race.
Franco Colapinto, Williams Racing
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“That is why [after qualifying] I used to be dissatisfied with the outcome and simply attempting to do my greatest session after session to try to present I should be right here.”
Whereas Pink Bull is known to have some curiosity in Colapinto, driver advisor Helmut Marko instructed the group shouldn’t be eager on taking exterior drivers on mortgage when it has its personal junior programme, with F2 frontrunner Isack Hadjar additionally ready within the wings.
“The issue with him is that he has a long-term contract with Williams,” the Austrian informed the Kleine Zeitung. “[Taking him on loan] shouldn’t be fascinating for any group. You don’t want to coach a driver for one more group.”
With regards to probably loaning Colapinto to RB, Vowles added: “I feel in all of this stuff in the mean time, let’s begin with the fundamentals.
“He has earned his place on the grid, and what we need to assist with that’s discovering him a spot in that regard.
“What it seems like, I can not let you know in the mean time, as a result of A, it’s totally delicate, and B, there’s actually not rather a lot to debate proper now. “
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