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Argentine racing driver (born 2003)
Franco Alejandro Colapinto is an Argentine racing driver who competes in Formula One for Alpine.
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British racing driver (born 1999)
Lando Norris is a British racing driver who competes in Formula One for McLaren. Norris won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 2025 with McLaren, and has won 13 Grands Prix across eight seasons.
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Instagram is an American photo and short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers. Users can browse other users' content by tags and locations, view trending content, like photos, and follow other users to add their content to a personal feed. A Meta-operated image-centric social media platform, it is available on iOS, Android, Windows, and the Web.
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Lando Norris apologised both privately and publicly to Franco Colapinto after heavily criticising the Alpine driver for causing a multi-car collision in Azerbaijan; watch Fridays practice sessions for the Bahrain GP in Malaysia at 5.30am and 9am, live on Sky Sports F1
Franco Colapinto has shared his reaction to Lando Norris' forthright comments after the Alpine driver forced him into retirement at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Franco Colapinto has acknowledged that Argentine F1 fans can be “bad” when it comes to social media abuse but hoped they can “improve” after a pile-on towards L