BUENOS AIRES.- The Argentine pilot Franco Colapinto confirmed on Tuesday that he will give a driving exhibition aboard a car from the Formula 1 in the streets of Buenos Aires on April 26, before playing the Miami Grand Prix in May.
Colapinto occupies a main seat in the French team Alpine since May 2025, after having debuted in Williams in September 2024 as a substitute for the American Logan Sargeant.
“See you at home, everyone come!” the 22-year-old pilot wrote on Instagram on Tuesday about the graphic announcing the event.
The event in Buenos Aires will transform Libertador and Sarmiento avenues, in the tourist neighborhood of Palermo, into a two-kilometer street circuit.
The Colapinto phenomenon has revolutionized Argentine society, for which motor racing is one of the most popular sports.
In the 1970s and 1980s Carlos Reutemann ran with the teams Brabham, Ferrari, Lotus and Williams. But the greatest Argentine legend is Juan Manuel Fangiowho won five Formula 1 world championships in the 1950s.
Colapinto obtained 16th place in the Japanese Grand Prix played on Sunday. He has one point in three tests this season.
The Italian pilot Kimi Antonelliof mercedeswon at Suzuka and became the youngest (19 years old) to lead the Formula 1 world championship.
Cucurella criticizes Chelsea
The Spanish side of the Chelsea, Marc Cucurellaregretted “the instability” caused by the dismissal of the DT, Enzo Marescain an interview published this Tuesday by The Athletic in which he also criticizes the club’s transfer policy.
The left back, international with Spain, who has been a member of the London club since 2022, openly criticized Chelsea’s transfer policy, based on the hiring of young talents with great potential, and gave as an example the elimination against the PSG in eighths of Champions League (5-2 and 3-0 defeats).
“We have a good core of players, the bases are there. But to fight for big titles like the Premier League wave Champions Leagueyou need something else. Signing only young footballers can complicate the achievement of these objectives. “Against PSG we lacked players who had gone through situations like that.”
