Colapinto starts with practice and Sprint qualifying in Qatar 🏁

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·28 November 2025

Colapinto starts with practice and Sprint qualifying in Qatar 🏁

The activity kicks off in the penultimate race of the season, and the Argentine driver will seek to score his first points.

The Qatar Grand Prix will start its activity this Friday, and there will be the Argentine Franco Colapinto, ready to face one of the most unique weekends of the season: only one free practice and the return of the Sprint race.

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The special format raises the demands on the drivers and also increases the opportunities to score points. Colapinto knows this and made it clear before hitting the track. After the crash at the Las Vegas start, Alpine completely repaired the car, which fuels the optimism of his followers.

“We will try. Every weekend we aim to score points, but it’s been challenging. In the last races, the car showed better and stronger, which gives us hope. I was very close on some circuits, although lately, I’ve had more difficulties. We believe there are clear reasons for this, and hopefully, here we will be stronger again,” said the Argentine driver.

This challenge is compounded by a particular condition: Pirelli established that no tire can exceed 25 laps, which forces two stops in the 52 laps of the GP. This change could favor Alpine, a team that usually suffers from compound degradation, especially on hot circuits like Lusail.

With renewed expectations and the concrete chance to enter the points zone on two occasions —Sprint and race—, Colapinto begins a key weekend in the championship's closing.