Rising Star: Franco Colapinto’s Alpine Challenge Ignites Strength with Williams

This weekend Franco Colapinto will compete in his first grand prix since Abu Dhabi last year, having taken Jack Doohan’s race seat at Alpine. The Enstone-based organisation has acquired a reputation for operational chaos since Renault reacquired it in 2016, having gone through one total rebrand and a litany of technical directors and senior management. Most recently, the former team principal Flavio Briatore returned as ‘executive advisor’ with Oliver Oakes joining from Hitech as the team principal. Any connection between Oakes’s departure and his brother’s legal issues is speculative. The…

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