Alpine team leader Flavio Briatore has contradicted his own squad’s announcement that Franco Colapinto had been promoted to a race seat for the next five Formula 1 rounds from this weekend’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix.
Alpine announced on 7 May that it was replacing Jack Doohan, who had failed to score a single point over the first six grands prix of the 2025 season, with reserve driver Colapinto for the next five races, switching their roles around.
