Colapinto and the enigmatic game of numbers that gives signs of his confirmation as an Alpine driver: the team's post and the hints from his friends
"Brazil, I love you," Franco Colapinto wrote on Instagram on November 4th. The seemingly ordinary photo concealed a message: a scene from the film Good Will Hunting, featuring a mathematical formula. Encrypted messages multiplied earlier this week in the Instagram stories posted by his managers, Maria Catarineu and Jamie Campbell Walter, and one variable kept recurring: the number 43. Even this Thursday, the driver posted another photo—riding a horse for a Sky Sports production—and wrote 43434343434343434343434343434343434343434343. However, one piece of this mystery was missing, and it appeared just hours before the mystery was (perhaps?) revealed: Alpine posted the date 7/11/25 and asked his followers , "Have you done the math yet?"
When the Mexican Grand Prix ended, Clarín contacted the French team about the possibility of announcing the Argentine driver's continued presence as a full-time driver for the following season the week before Brazil. "Nothing imminent," they replied, indicating "November" as the "deadline." There was, of course, a reason: the date had already been set and concealed the number 43. Yes, in case anyone hasn't done the math yet, 7+11+25 equals... 43.
Although the day is still a few hours away, Alpine and the cryptic messages from Colapinto's entourage only fuel the anticipation of the announcement that the Argentine public has been waiting for since the 22-year-old from Buenos Aires returned to a Formula 1 car in Imola last May. Almost six months have passed since that day, but the wait will have been worthwhile because, if confirmed, the Argentine will join the F1 driver lineup for the first time.
Yes, his face will appear when the category completes that musical chair game that they upload to their social networks every year with the available seats when there is little time left before the end of the season.
Have you done the maths yet? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/v2im7VSkGU
— BWT Alpine Formula One Team (@AlpineF1Team) November 6, 2025
Last Tuesday, in addition to posting that suggestive, modified photo on her feed , Colapinto changed her bio description and added the number 43. The next day, Maria posted again: this time, it was a photo with Jamie, but it hid the number 43, painted in white on a wall of the same color.
But the messages didn't just appear on the social media of the driver's inner circle; Gaston Parisier , owner of Bigbox, one of the driver's personal sponsors, uploaded an image of prime numbers and wrote: "Each one refuses to be divided by anyone other than itself and by THE ONE. They are the rebels of the realm of numbers, incorruptible, solitary, unpredictable. There is something almost poetic about them: they don't follow an apparent pattern, and yet they weave the deep rhythm of mathematical order. They are rare, and the further you go, the scarcer they become, but they never disappear. There is always another prime waiting beyond, like a star yet to be discovered. The ancient Pythagoreans believed that numbers had a soul, and if that were true, primes would be the free spirits of the numerical cosmos: unattainable, infinite, and fundamental." What was so special about the message? The number 43 was missing.
Each one refuses to be divided by anyone but themselves and THE ONE. They are the rebels of the realm of numbers, incorruptible, solitary, unpredictable. There is something almost poetic about them: they follow no apparent pattern, and yet they weave the deep rhythm of order… pic.twitter.com/R5y3fPnRmA
— Gaston Parisier (@maghico22) November 4, 2025
Sean Summers , CMO of Mercado Libre - another of the brands that accompanies the native of Pilar and that put its logo on the A525 in Austin, Mexico and here in Brazil - showed a purchase on the Brazilian version of the e-commerce app of a yellow pen and wrote "arrives tomorrow" , a post that Marcos Galperin, founder of ML, retweeted.
— Marcos Galperin (@marcos_galperin) November 6, 2025
With the date set by Alpine just hours away, who can rule out the possibility of the 43 making a reappearance? It seems we just have to wait.
Clarin
