Gasly alarms Alpine, Colapinto worried too: “We lose everywhere” | OneFootball

After a forgettable 2025 in which it finished at the bottom of the standings, Alpine improved significantly and established itself as one of the most competitive teams in the middle of the Formula 1 grid. But the A526’s performance seems to have stalled (it scored only ten points in the last three races), which set off alarm bells throughout the French team. Especially for Franco Colapinto’s teammate, Pierre Gasly, who said: “We’re losing everywhere” compared to Racing Bulls, Alpine’s direct rival in this 2026 season.

“We’re too slow and we’ll have to improve the car because we lost ground to Gabriel Bortoletto and the Racing Bulls at Silverstone,” the Frenchman said in an interview with Canal+. Even though Alpine scored three points last weekend, thanks to the Argentine’s great comeback (he climbed 10 positions to finish 9th) and Gasly’s 10th-place finish, both Audi’s Brazilian driver (8th) and the two cars from the energy drink company’s junior team (7th and 6th) showed superior performance.

For Gasly, the Racing Bull currently does “everything better” than the Alpine: “We’re sliding everywhere, we have no traction, and we’re slower in the corners. At best, we’re just as fast, and otherwise they beat us by quite a margin. There’s a lot of work ahead.”

The on-track superiority of the Faenza-based team’s cars—both Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad have finished in the top 10 in the last four Grands Prix—is also reflected in the standings. The French team lost its previous advantage, and its fifth place in the Constructors’ Championship is now under threat from its direct rival, which sits just one point behind.

The possibility of losing that fifth place—which would mean missing out on several million extra dollars at the end of the season—is a very real scenario and one that worries everyone in Enstone. “It’s impossible to relax,” said team principal Steve Nielsen, describing the battle with Racing Bulls as “a development war.”

But the Italian-rooted team is not the only threat to Alpine. Although their performance has so far been well below expectations, both Williams and Aston Martin are also expected to bring significant upgrades in the coming races with the aim of fully joining the fight in the middle of the standings.

With two rounds left (Belgium and Hungary) before the European summer break, the battle to be ‘best of the rest’ seems to be reaching a boiling point, and the next races will be key to finding out whether Racing Bulls’ recent supremacy will grow even stronger or whether Alpine can get its upgrades right and turn the situation around.

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