Alpine Confirms Colapinto and Gasly Duo for 2027 Season

Alpine have drawn a clear line under their driver plans. Franco Colapinto will stay in Formula 1 with the Enstone outfit next season, partnering Pierre Gasly in an unchanged line-up the team believes can drag it back towards the front.

It is a rapid rise confirmed with a firm handshake. Colapinto arrived at Alpine as a reserve for 2025, a long-term bet rather than an immediate headline. Then came the twist: from the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix he was thrown into a race seat to replace Jack Doohan. He has not looked back.

Since then, the Argentine has turned opportunity into currency. Nineteen points from six Grands Prix this season have given Alpine badly needed momentum and helped lift the team to sixth in the Constructors’ standings. Just as importantly, he has meshed with Gasly on and off the track, giving the garage a stable, united core.

Gasly, already locked in with a deal through at least the end of 2028, was always expected to stay. The real decision lay alongside him. Alpine’s internal discussions have ended with a clear verdict: keep the pair together. The team describes the combination as “the perfect match-up to drive the team forwards into the future,” a strong statement for a project that has often struggled for continuity.

Flavio Briatore, Alpine’s Executive Advisor, framed the move as a cornerstone, not a conclusion. Consistency, he argued, is non-negotiable if the team is serious about climbing the grid. With the driver question settled for 2027, his attention – and the factory’s – turns squarely to the car. In his words, designing and building a fast machine “absolutely remains our number one priority.”

The evidence for Colapinto’s promotion from prospect to pillar has come in flashes of real authority. Performances in Miami and Montreal, highlighted by Briatore as key markers, underlined that the 21-year-old is not just making up the numbers. He looks like he belongs in Formula 1, and, crucially for Alpine, he looks like he belongs in their car.

Colapinto, for his part, sounds like a driver who has found a home. He spoke of feeling “very happy and very settled” inside a team that, in his view, has taken “significant progress this year compared to last.” The targets he laid out were blunt: compete, then win. No dressing it up.

He also pointed to the grind behind the scenes – the constant search for performance, the incremental gains, the belief that the current step is only part of a larger climb. His gratitude towards Briatore and Managing Director Steve Nielsen came laced with responsibility: he knows this contract is trust made tangible, and that the next phase of his career will be judged on what he delivers on Sundays.

The timing of the announcement is no accident. It lands just before the Italian Grand Prix, a weekend that will give Colapinto another tool in his arsenal. In Monza, he will finally receive the upgraded package that Alpine rolled out early for Gasly at Zandvoort. The benchmark is already in-house; now both drivers will have identical machinery to push the development race.

So Alpine head into one of the calendar’s most iconic races with clarity in the cockpit and questions everywhere else. The drivers are signed. The direction is set.

Now comes the hard part: can this line-up, locked in for the long term, help turn Alpine from midfield survivors into genuine contenders again?