Briatore leaves Colapinto's future with Alpine open-ended: 'Depends on the performance'

When asked about the Argentinian driver's first couple of weekends at the French team, Briatore said: "Franco Colapinto — we need to wait one second to judge Franco. We see. We see this race. We need the full race. We did Monte Carlo. It was a very special race for everybody. We made a lot of mistakes in qualifying. And in Monte Carlo, you know, qualifying well is the race. Especially this race. Monte Carlo, it was very boring and very annoying."

Briatore first wants to see how Colapinto performs, but it there is no clear limit. "Let’s see. This is the first real race of Franco. Races, I don’t know, honestly. I never tell five races, three races, four races, one race. We see. If Colapinto is performing he’s driving the car. If not, we’ll see."

He continued: "2025 is a year we need to prepare ourselves for 2026. So whatever experiment I need doing, we’re doing. I don’t know at this moment if Franco will stay for the season or not, but let’s see. Depends on the performance. We’re only looking at the performance — nothing else."

Briatore was not the only team representative asked about their drivers' future. Red Bull's Christian Horner was also tasked with a different question about Yuki Tsunoda.