Alpine shines again and Colapinto dares to dream | OneFootball

The French team once again led a key metric in Canada and confirmed an improvement that could boost the Argentine on fast circuits during the season.

Franco Colapinto is enjoying, for the second race in a row, having achieved his best result since arriving in Formula 1, and showing for the first time this year that the Alpine is up to his level. With the next challenge in Monaco in June on the horizon, the Argentine is already focusing on what lies ahead with a sense of excitement, and this Monday a piece of data was revealed that has him optimistic about tracks farther down the road.

For the third time in five races, an Alpine driver was crowned the Speed Master of the day, the award the category gives to the driver who reached the highest speed in the race. In the 2026 season opener in Australia, Colapinto himself had earned the recognition by pushing the Alpine to 344 kilometers per hour. On that occasion, he finished 14th and his teammate Pierre Gasly 10th.

At the next race, it was the Frenchman who posted the best mark with 354 km/h in China, where he finished sixth and the driver from Pilar came in 10th. A trend was already emerging there: even though the car was not yet completely dialed in, the team had achieved great straight-line performance, where extreme speeds are reached.

Now, after Nico Hülkenberg (Audi) in Japan and George Russell (Mercedes) in Miami, Alpine returned to the top in that category thanks to Gasly, who stood out in Canada with a top speed of 348.2 km/h, very close even to Checo Pérez’s all-time record of 349.7 in 2019.

Beyond the fact that races are about much more than a record speed at one specific moment, the statistic helps further confirm the major improvement of the team the Argentine drives for and a possible advantage on certain types of tracks with longer straights, such as Monza in Italy and Baku in Azerbaijan, both Grands Prix scheduled for September. Will Alpine continue to dominate in that area by then?

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