Helmut Marko addresses wild Franco Colapinto to Red Bull rumours
Helmut Marko explains why Red Bull 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 rep﷽lacement for Logan Sargeant at Williams last year, before a series of 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 un🔯der p💮ressure to perform in his rookie F1 season.
The rumours linking Colapinto with Red Bull came after Ma🅺rko was seen in Alpine’s hospitality over the Chinese Grand Prix weekend as speculation over Lawson’s future was rife.
Marko has now revealed the reason foꦏr his Alpine visit and insisted Colapinto was not discussed during a catch up with🍷 team principal Oliver Oakes.
“Yes, I have a good relationship with Ollie Oakes,” Marko to🎶ld .
“He has regularly run some of our drivers in hiཧs various teams ac൲ross the junior categories.
“One of his drivers is currently racing in the British [F4, F🍸ionn McLaughlin], 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 po💫ints in nine starts for Wiℱlliams 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 sa🌌ys Colapinto was 🐻never “a serious consideration” 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 in the end, he wa🌠sn’t a serious consideration.
“We had Hadjar, who was consistently faster in Formula 2 than Colapinto and, as has now been proven, 💮turned out to be the right choice.”
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