Franco Colapinto has been sent to the pit lane for the start of the British Grand Prix after Alpine opted to make sweeping changes to his A525 machine under Parc Ferme conditions. The Argentine starlet was under intense scrutiny heading into the weekend with his Alpine future on the line, but Colapinto couldn't rise to the occasion.

The 22-year-old suffered a spin at the Club corner during the first part of qualifying, sending him spinning into the gravel. Colapinto's Alpine made light contact with the wall, and while he was initially able to roll his car out of the gravel and start the long road back to the pit lane, he was quickly informed by his engineers that his afternoon was over. This set him up for a P20 starting grid slot on Sunday.

With nothing to lose, Alpine opted to bolt some new components onto Colapinto's car for Sunday's Grand Prix. The Pilar-born racer will have a new internal combustion engine, turbocharger, MGU-H, MGU-K, energy store, control electronics and exhaust system for the battle at Silverstone.

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