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Franco Colapinto shuts down talk of having just five F1 races to prove himself at Alpine

"If your 100% is just to perform at a very high level in Formula 1, which is where I want to get to as soon as possible, that for me should take less than half a year; five to 10 races.”

One of the recurring narratives over the first quarter of the 2025 F1 season has been Carlos Sainz’s apparent struggles to adapt to the Williams after four seasons at Ferrari. He cast it as a battle to remap muscle memory after learning to drive a car in a very specific way to extract maximum performance.

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