Jack Doohan has revealed his Formulation 1 race quantity, after his preliminary alternative needed to be modified as a result of Andrea Kimi Antonelli had already taken it.
The Australian, who’s stepping as much as Alpine in 2025 as team-mate to Pierre Gasly, had first lodged a request to run with #12 after being instructed by the FIA that it was accessible.
Nonetheless, it subsequently emerged that #12 had been taken by Mercedes driver Antonelli – which meant Doohan wanted to go for one thing completely different.
Now, in a video posted by his Alpine squad, Doohan has introduced that he’s as an alternative taking #7 – which has a double that means for him.
“In order that’s it. Quantity seven can be my race quantity for 2025,” he mentioned. “Tremendous psyched.
“I actually wished to go together with a quantity that I raced with earlier than. One thing that had that means for me. I raced with quantity seven in 2019.
“And likewise one in every of my idols, a brilliant particular individual and driver, Kimi Raikkonen, additionally drove with that quantity.
“I am actually trying ahead to persevering with it on and making it my very own. And yeah, getting some luck from quantity seven.”
Doohan raced with the #7 when he competed for Double R Racing within the Euroformula Open Championship in 2019.
Underneath Formulation 1’s present sporting rules, drivers have to decide on a everlasting quantity that they maintain for his or her complete F1 profession.
Numbers solely turn out to be accessible if a driver’s F1 profession is deemed to have ended after two full seasons out of grand prix racing.
Raikkonen competed with #7 from 2014 till 2021, which implies it grew to become accessible from this season.
Antonelli’s choice for #12 was prompted by its hyperlink to his hero Ayrton Senna, who raced with #12 from 1985 by to his title-winning 1988 marketing campaign.
“Yeah, I’ll take 12,” mentioned the Italian. “I’ve many numbers that I like. However 12 is a particular one, additionally due to an idol. I have been utilizing it since F4. It all the time went properly with 12. So, no purpose to vary it for subsequent yr.”
