#not a jack fan or hater. just a neutral party

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Typical Colapinto fan. "I don't want Jack dropped because I don't want my boy at that team!" How about "I don't want Jack dropped because Jack is an excellent driver in his own right who's worked his ass off for that seat and should be given the chance to show it"? You'd destroy any career for your Colapinto. It's not enough to leave hate for Jack on every Alpine post, huh?

Need you to read what I wrote carefully. I don't want Jack to fail even if it means Colapinto gets another chance. But it doesn't matter what I want. Alpine are only giving Jack 5 races to catch up to Pierre which is a huge thing to ask for. If he doesn't deliver, and the chances are high, they're kicking him out. The Alpine higher-ups (Flavio Briatore) do not have faith in Jack. But Flavio has teased the possibility of Franco joining Alpine, and has spoken positively about him. Put the pieces together, Jack is being set up to fail so he can be replaced by either Franco or Paul Aron.

If anything, I'm mad that Franco is being treated as just a marketing tool by a lot of F1 fans and some of the paddock, and not being taken seriously because of his racecraft. That's my main problem with this situation. Yes he's charismatic and funny, but his actual skills behind the wheel are what we should be discussing more. I'm guilty of this myself and will try to do better in the future.

Lots of drivers on the grid, like Checo and Lewis, have spoken positively about how good Franco's doing. A year ago Franco was struggling to find sponsorships to fund his F2 campaign. And then he was a F2 rookie who got a lot less preparation before stepping up to F1 compared to others. The first time I ever heard of Franco was when he did that Free Practice in Silverstone. A couple of months later he was finishing out the season. It's crazy how much his life has changed in such a short time. If I never saw the hashtags his fans trended to raise awareness about his situation, I doubt I would have cared much or known about what was going on with his career. People get annoyed with Argentinians commenting under every official post to hire Franco but it was them bombarding the comments that made me realize how passionate his fans are. With that being said, Franco has shown enough for him to have a full-time seat and I want him to have that as his fan. No I wouldn't want it to be at the expense of Jack, but if that's what's gotta happen then it is what it is. Also I don't comment hate on posts where drivers could potentially see it because that's corny. I don't need the drivers to know that I exist and being irrelevant is peaceful.