Jack Doohan says dropping his race seat on the Alpine F1 workforce to Franco Colapinto is “a troublesome one for me to take” after it was confirmed he would step again, six races into the 2025 season.
Doohan was but to attain factors for the Alpine squad, and after one other difficult weekend in Miami, which confirmed some sturdy one-lap efficiency but additionally ended after a Flip 1 collision, the workforce has now pulled the set off on placing reserve driver Colapinto within the seat for the subsequent 5 grand prix weekends.
Doohan will in the meantime return to order duties with the workforce, which can re-evaluate its line-up after the Austrian Grand Prix in June.
The 22-year-old Australian admitted his demotion was arduous to take, however vowed to maintain his head down over the subsequent few months.
“I’m very proud to have achieved my lifelong ambition to be an expert Method 1 driver, and I’ll endlessly be grateful to the workforce for serving to me obtain this dream,” Doohan acknowledged, quoted by Alpine. “Clearly, this newest chapter is a troublesome one for me to take as a result of, as an expert driver, naturally I need to be racing.
“That mentioned, I respect the workforce’s belief and dedication. We have now long-term objectives as a workforce to realize, and I’ll proceed to offer my most efforts in any approach I can to assist obtain these. For now, I’ll preserve my head down, preserve working arduous, watch with curiosity the subsequent 5 races and preserve chasing my very own private objectives.”
Jack Doohan, Alpine
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Alpine’s driver swap coincides with workforce principal Oliver Oakes resigning from the function, after having run the workforce alongside government advisor Flavio Briatore since final summer season.
“Having reviewed the opening races of the season, we’ve got come to the choice to place Franco within the automobile alongside Pierre for the subsequent 5 races,” mentioned Briatore, who’s now totally in command of the workforce in the intervening time. “With the sphere being so carefully matched this yr, and with a aggressive automobile, which the workforce has drastically improved up to now 12 months, we’re able the place we see the necessity to rotate our line-up.
“We additionally know the 2026 season shall be an vital one for the workforce and having a whole and honest evaluation of the drivers this season is the appropriate factor to do in an effort to maximise our ambitions subsequent yr. We proceed to help Jack on the workforce, as he has acted in a really skilled method in his function as a race driver up to now this season. The subsequent 5 races will give us a chance to strive one thing totally different and after this time interval we are going to assess our choices.”
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