Date of Birth: 27 May 2003

Place of Birth: Pilar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Height: 174cm

Franco Colapinto enters his second year at BWT Alpine Formula One Team following the confirmation in November 2025 that he would complete the team’s driver line-up for the 2026 season.

Born in Pilar, a city in the northwest of the Buenos Aires Province in Argentina, Franco started his racing career at the age of nine. While karting in his home country, he collected various regional and national titles before making his junior formulae debut in 2018 in the F4 Spanish Championship. A year later the Argentine driver won his first junior championship, claiming the 2019 F4 Spanish Championship title with 11 wins, 10 pole positions, 10 fastest laps and 13 total podiums across 21 races.

Franco progressed through various single seater series and gained experience in endurance racing. He claimed third overall in both the 2020 Formula Renault Eurocup and the 2020 Toyota Racing Series. In 2021, he drove in two FIA World Endurance Championship races and competed in both the Asian Le Mans Series and the European Le Mans Series, finishing third and fourth respectively.

In 2022 he made the step up to FIA Formula 3, securing his maiden win during the Sprint Race in Imola and going on to claim a second win in the Monza Sprint Race. Finishing on the podium a further three times he closed out the season ninth overall. Ahead of his second season in Formula 3, Franco was signed to the Williams Driver Academy and drove in the 2023 post-season test in Abu Dhabi. In Formula 3 that year, he won in both the Silverstone and Monza Sprint Races and claimed three additional podiums. His consistency in scoring points across the season earned him fourth in the standings.

Franco stepped in at MP Motorsport for the final round of the 2023 FIA Formula 2 season at Yas Marina before taking the full-time seat at the team for the 2024 season. He claimed his first Formula 2 win during the Imola Sprint Race, making a final push to overtake the car ahead for first place on the last lap of the race. Just two months later Franco made his Formula One session debut in Free Practice One of the 2024 British Grand Prix, driving for Williams Racing.

Prior to the 2024 Italian Grand Prix, it was announced that Franco would make his first Formula One race start and would complete the remaining nine rounds of the season with Williams Racing. He scored points in both the Azerbaijan Grand Prix and the United States Grand Prix.

BWT Alpine Formula One Team announced in January 2025 that it had entered into an agreement with Williams Racing to secure the driving services of Franco on a multi-year deal. Franco joined the team as Test and Reserve Driver before being promoted into the full-time race seat in May 2025.