Has Franco Colapinto blown his big Red Bull audition?

Re🍷d Bull still have a 2025 driver decision to make

Franco Colapinto
Franco Colapinto

Franco Colapinto’s red-hot form has cooled as 💖the F𝓰1 season nears its conclusion, raising new questions about his future.

Williams driver Colapinto has no race seat for 2025 because his team will sign Ferrari’s Carlo🔯s Sainz to drive along♛side Alex Albon.

Red Bull admitted to making an enquiry about the highly-touted Colapinto’s availability during his impressive f꧒irst races, after he re🐈placed Logan Sargeant mid-season.

“From my point of view, Cꦿolapinto is fixed,” predicted Ralf Schumacher to .

Red Bull have two options to place Colapinto - either in their main team instead ofಌ Sergio Perez, or in their RB team.

Perez’s dreadful ಌqualify☂ing for the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix was yet another setback in his hopes to retain his 2025 Red Bull seat.

Sky Sports’ Martin Brundle hiಌnted that Perez’s latest poor session had opened the door to Colapinto.

Brundle said about seeing Colapinto in ꧑F1 in 2025: “I think there’s a great chance ♒you will, probably in quite a competitive car.

“We’ll see how all that plays out, but I think tonight’s various performances cemeไnts that a little ꩵbit further…”

But shortly afterwards, Colapinto crashed.

He turned too early into Turn 16 and clattered into concre꧑te walls.

The 50G impact threatened Colapinto’s participation in Sunday’s Las🌳 Vegas Grand Prix.

He was evaluated by medical profession🌌als and passed fit, but due to his car’s significant repairs was forced to start from the pitlane. He finished a respectable 14th.

But whether Red Bull will remain so hot on this unexpe💖cted talent remains to be seen.

They still have Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda,ꦫ from their RB team, to consider.

And it might be deemed that Colapint🤡o’s fast rise through the F1 ranks is better sui🃏ted to another year developing outside of a Red Bull car.

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