Colapinto on Chinese GP hopes: "We've got another chance" | OneFootball

The Alpine driver finished 14th in the event that opened the 2026 Formula 1 season and has already arrived in Shanghai for the second round of the calendar.

The Argentine Franco Colapinto, who finished 14th in the Australian Grand Prix with his Alpine, looked ahead to his debut in the Chinese GP, which takes place in Shanghai and will feature a sprint race on Saturday: “We have a new opportunity and we have to make the most of it.”

Colapinto stated that everything will be “new” for him in the Asian giant and analyzed: “It’s important to adapt quickly to the car and learn fast. It’s a very technical circuit, with long corners and many different speeds. It’s quite difficult.”

On the other hand, the 22-year-old from Pilar celebrated that both French single-seaters finished an event in which there were five retirements, as Pierre Gasly—his teammate—finished tenth and scored a point. Regarding the consistency of the grid, he commented: “It’s something that no one has yet. Sometimes you make a good start and, in the next one, you have the worst of your life.”

Finally, the former Williams driver spoke about his brilliant save at the start of the Melbourne GP, in which he avoided, with great reflexes, a crash with New Zealander Liam Lawson (Red Bull): “I was lucky to react very quickly. It’s not something you prepare for, it just comes naturally.”

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