Alpine Confirms Colapinto and Gasly Partnership for 2027
Franco Colapinto’s Formula 1 story with Alpine is no short-term experiment. It’s now the project.
The Enstone team have confirmed the Argentine will stay on as a race driver for 2027, continuing alongside Pierre Gasly in an unchanged line-up the team believes can drag it back towards the front.
From reserve to cornerstone
Colapinto arrived at Alpine as a 2025 reserve, a name for the future rather than the present. That plan didn’t last long.
When Jack Doohan was moved aside ahead of the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, Colapinto was thrown into the race seat. He has not given it back. Alpine kept faith with him for this season and he has responded with 19 points from six Grands Prix, a quietly efficient haul that has helped lift the team to sixth in the constructors’ standings.
Those numbers don’t leap off the page in isolation. In the context of a midfield car still searching for consistent performance, they matter. They also explain why Alpine have chosen stability over the roulette wheel of the driver market.
A partnership Alpine can build around
Inside the garage, Colapinto and Gasly have become the axis of the team’s rebuild. Gasly, already tied down until at least the end of 2028, was always the favourite to stay. The question was who would share the load.
Alpine believe they now have their answer.
The team described the pairing as “the perfect match-up to drive the team forwards into the future”, a clear signal that they see chemistry, not just raw speed, as central to their recovery plan. On and off the track, the relationship between the two has been one of the brighter stories of an otherwise stop-start campaign.
Executive Advisor Flavio Briatore underlined the logic: consistency first, then performance. With the driver picture settled, Alpine want no excuses when it comes to the real battleground – the car.
He pointed to Colapinto’s standout drives in Miami and Montreal as proof that the 21-year-old belongs at this level and belongs in blue. Those weekends, where composure met aggression at exactly the right moments, turned internal belief into contractual commitment.
Colapinto digs in for the long haul
Colapinto, for his part, sounds like a man who has found his place.
He spoke of feeling “very happy and very settled” at Alpine, and of the satisfaction of seeing tangible progress compared to last season. That matters to a young driver: you don’t just want a seat, you want a trajectory.
He knows the targets are not modest. Compete. Then win. That’s the brief. He name-checked Briatore and Managing Director Steve Nielsen as key figures in the decision, and made it clear he understands the responsibility that comes with long-term trust. The promise is simple: focus on the job on track, let the rest follow.
Upgrades, Monza, and the next step
The timing of the announcement is no coincidence. It lands just before the Italian Grand Prix, where Colapinto will finally receive the upgraded package that Gasly debuted early at Zandvoort.
Gasly’s early run with the new parts gave Alpine a first read on their development direction. Now both cars will carry the same specification into Monza’s high-speed theatre, a crucial test of whether the team’s recent “significant progress” is real or just circuit-specific.
The line-up is locked. The vision is clear enough. The question now is whether Alpine can deliver a car worthy of a driver pairing they believe can take them back to the front of Formula 1.
