Alpine addresses Colapinto ‘sabotage’ claims in stunning open letter

The Alpine Formula 1 team has released a lengthy open letter addressing claims that it is “sabotaging” Franco Colapinto’s car.Those claims circled on social media around the Chinese Grand Prix weekend, suggesting there was a specification difference between Colapinto’s car and that of Pierre Gasly.It later emerged that this stemmed from the team finding a gearbox problem just before the Shanghai weekend, which led to small differences in parts between the cars as Colapinto returned to an older part from testing.Colapinto also talked of the “front wing underdelivering”= and said it was something “that we still need to understand more” on Thursday at the Japanese GP.But as part of a fresh push back against online abuse in the wake of Colapinto and Ollie Bea …