FIA Formula One World Championship, Round 14 at the Hungaroring Wrap-up

It’s been a long weekend for Alpine with results not falling the way of the team at the Hungaroring. Unfortunately, both cars struggled to make an impact with track conditions and set-up not suiting the A525.

Pierre & Colapinto’s race results:
Pierre started from P16 on New Hards, finished P19
Pit-Stop on Lap 32 for New Mediums. Fastest Lap: 1min 21.433secs

Franco started from P14 on New Mediums, finished P18
Pit-Stops on Lap 13 for New Hards and Lap 35 for New Hards. Fastest Lap: 1min 20.827secs

Sadly, Gasly struggled through qualifying, suffering from understeer that marred his overall performance. Colapinto fared slightly better getting through Q1 and falling slightly short of a Q3 berth, finishing up in P13. While neither driver was happy, they were looking forward to battling through the field to make up some places. 

Raceday played out differently than the team would have wanted with both cars slipping back, even though Gasly felt that the team executed the overall day well;

“Ultimately, we are just too slow. The last two weekends we have been able to maximise the conditions and come away with two good results. Today was more conventional and it really highlighted our weak spots.”

While it was a difficult weekend though he acknowledged that there was some good on track battles as well as looking forward to the break;

“There were a lot of fun battles out there and I felt like the racing was generally very good. I am here to race, not to give up, and I just gave it my best in all the wheel-to-wheel fights. Now, the team and I are staying in Budapest for a test before the summer break. We have all been working extremely hard and I am sure everyone is looking forward to a couple of weeks off.”

Colapinto had similar thoughts;

“It was not the best of days today and a difficult race for us as a team. The pace was good at times in clean air and I had the same feeling as yesterday.” 

He’s looking forward to some rest in the Summer Shutdown to come back refreshed for Zandvoort on the other side;

“With the summer break we need to use this opportunity to rest and reset and be ready to go again in Zandvoort and try to understand where we can keep making improvements.”

Flavio was disappointed, but was bullish on the team’s 2026 prospects while also setting firm targets for the team after the break;

“It has been a tough season so far and the aim for the remainder of the year is to try and turnaround our current position. (...)  Now is a critical phase in our work for next year and I know the team at Enstone is making positive headway on that project. I expect everyone to come back from the summer break with a lot of determination and fighting spirit”.

Trak Racer is proud of the hard battle on track from both Gasly and Colapinto and supports the team's goals for the rest of this season and the 2026 regulations.