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# Colapinto keeps Alpine F1 seat for 2027
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/franco-colapinto-2027-f1-deal-alpine/
- Published: 2026-08-27T11:00:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-27T11:00:14.000Z
- Description: The Alpine Formula 1 team has completed its line-up for the 2027 season by retaining Franco Colapinto
- Author: Jack Cozens
- Tags: Formula 1, #franco-colapinto, #alpine, #secondary_feature_1

The Alpine Formula 1 team has completed its line-up for the 2027 season by retaining Franco Colapinto.

[Alpine executive advisor Briatore said in May](https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/alpine-f1-2027-line-up-mercedes-driver-admission/) that he wanted to hold out on completing the team's line-up for next season in case either of Mercedes' drivers suddenly became available, in such a scenario as Max Verstappen choosing to move there.

But Briatore also said at that point that Colapinto was on the right trajectory to retain his seat, those comments coming shortly after a seventh-place finish in Miami, then a career-best sixth in Canada.

Any prospect of a Verstappen move has been extinguished anyway - the four-time F1 champion [signed a new deal with Red Bull](https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/max-verstappen-red-bull-f1-contract-2030-extended-deal/) ahead of the Dutch Grand Prix - and Alpine has now moved to extend Colapinto's stay into the 2027 season.

The competitiveness of the Alpine - the clear midfield benchmark at the start of the season - waned in the lead-up to the summer break but Colapinto still scored points at three of the six grands prix before the mid-season pause.

The 23-year-old is 12th in the drivers' championship, with 19 points to team-mate Pierre Gasly's 44, in what still represents his first full season in F1.

Colapinto made his debut with Williams in 2024 - where he scored five points - before he was promoted to an Alpine race seat at Jack Doohan's expense from round seven of the 2025 season, a campaign in which neither of those two drivers scored and in which Alpine prioritised its car for this year's all-new rules era.

Gasly - who is 10th in the drivers' standings and is the only driver outside of F1's 'big four' teams to have scored a podium in 2026 - agreed a new deal with Alpine in September last year that is due to keep him [with the team until the end of 2028.](https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/pierre-gasly-alpine-f1-contract-extension/)

He had access to [Alpine's substantial upgrade package](https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/will-this-big-upgrade-swing-a-key-f1-fight-gary-andersons-take/) at the Dutch GP, which Colapinto is set to receive at the upcoming Italian GP.