Franco Colapinto suffered a crash on the second morning of Pirelli\u2019s post-Hungarian Grand Prix test, Alpine have confirmed.<\/p>\n
Alpine, McLaren, Ferrari and Racing Bulls are all taking part in the two-day test at the Hungaroring, which is being used for 2026 tyre development work.<\/p>\n
However, after taking over driving duties from test and reserve driver Paul Aron on Wednesday, Colapinto had an off at Turn 11 that halted his running.<\/p>\n
Alpine, who are also fielding Pierre Gasly at the test, described Colapinto as \u201cokay\u201d following medical checks.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring Day 2 of Pirelli Tyre Testing at the Hungaroring this morning, Franco Colapinto had an incident at Turn 11,\u201d read a brief statement from Alpine.<\/p>\n
\u201cFranco was assessed on site at the Medical Centre and is okay.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other drivers who have been in action at the test are last weekend\u2019s race winner Lando Norris for McLaren, Liam Lawson for Racing Bulls and Charles Leclerc for Ferrari.<\/p>\n
Pirelli\u2019s test is aimed at evaluating 2026 tyre constructions (which need to be homologated by September 1) and prototype compounds (which need to be homologated by December 15).<\/p>\n
After this week\u2019s outing at the Hungaroring, six more days of 2026 testing have been planned: two each at Italian tracks Monza and Mugello, and two in Mexico City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Franco Colapinto suffered a crash on the second morning of Pirelli\u2019s post-Hungarian Grand Prix test, Alpine have confirmed.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-324124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114985237481363306","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}