Buenos Aires, January 29 (NA) – Franco Colapinto was active on Thursday during the fourth day of the F1 shakedown, which is taking place at the Barcelona-Catalunya Circuit. On a slightly cloudy day with 11 degrees Celsius and no rain in Montmeló, the Argentine was not part of Alpine's program, which will close its last permitted testing day tomorrow with Pierre Gasly at the wheel of the A526, as reported by the Argentine News Agency. On Day 4, five teams took to the track: Mercedes, Cadillac, Racing Bulls, Ferrari, and McLaren. In this context, Mercedes stood out again as the most active and fastest team, with Andrea Kimi Antonelli setting the best morning reference and completing the third and final day for the German team in Barcelona. The morning times for Day 4 saw Antonelli at the top with a 1m17s081, followed by Lewis Hamilton with Ferrari (1m18s654), Oscar Piastri with McLaren (1m18s863), Liam Lawson with Racing Bulls (1m19s369), and Sergio Pérez with Cadillac (1m22s508). Aston Martin could join them, having arrived at the circuit on Tuesday with the goal of completing assembly work before the shakedown's closure. In contrast, Haas, Red Bull, and Audi had decided not to run on this day. Alpine's absence from the track, while not officially confirmed, fits into the French team's usual planning, which distributed its driving days among its drivers. In this way, Colapinto completed his participation in the previous sessions, while the program's conclusion will be exclusively in Gasly's hands, marking the last opportunity to accumulate kilometers before the move to Bahrain. In a context of maximum information reserve, with strict security controls and no official timing release, some data became known through partial leaks.
