Rumors of change by Doohan in Alpine take every more strength

The rumor that for a weeks has not to grow like a snowball is gradually taking a truth. Is that the next hours will be decisive to know what the future of Franco frankntoto in the Formula 1. Actually, they are decisive hours for Alpine, who must make the decision to make the departure of Jack Doohan. The Australian does not even go back at this start of the season and, unintentionally, he makes the Argentine, current reserve pilot and wait for a new opportunity since he decided to leave Williams, where in 2024 he played the last nine races of the campaign.

There is a problem. And it is not less. Nobody, nor the French team or the surroundings of the Pilarense, is encouraged to say it officially. However, it is known that Doohan’s fate is thrown. And collapint Grand Prix de Emilia Romagnato be held on the weekend of May 18 at the Icola circuit.

Why nobody, beyond some ventured – which is perhaps right – is encouraged to give the redness. Is that in formula 1 nothing can be ensured until all documents are signed. It can happen, for example, that Doohan appears with a new help from his sponsors – in the last weeks he had an injection of 10 million dollars – and a new opportunity is won by money force. It can also happen that Alpine gives the flying, but that he bets on the Estonian Paul Aronthe other reservation, instead of opening the door to Colapint.

What do they say from the team? Consulted by ClarionlAlpine spokesmen say that there is nothing to say officially on the subject and that there will be no news immediately. However, This newspaper was able to confirm that the replacement versions are true. The door is clearly open. The output and the entrance. And there is another indication: the French team, for the first time, did not rule out that the Argentine pilot leaves its reserve place in the circuit or in the simulator, something that so far had been responsible for clarifying emphatically to each consultation.

The people who drive the Argentine, meanwhile, become friends with caution. “Everything can happen”they limit themselves to the consultations knowing that F1 has no scruples When making decisions and, ultimately, doing business.

There is also an internal bracelet in Alpine among the team leader, the Briton Oliver Oakesand the sports advisor, the Italian Flavio Briatore. That is why no one can give anything for sure until the team that depends on Renault Lance an official statement. “Reserve, reserve, reserve,” said Briatore when he was approached by an Argentine journalist to ask him about the role of Colapint at the next stop of the Great Circus. It is known that he is the main supporter of giving the chair of the Argentine, while Oakes seems not to be so convinced. Beyond Doohan, in these six competitions of the year, he did everything possible to discourage him.

The last name Doohan in Australia is closely related to motor sport. Mick, Jack’s father, was five times MotoGP champion and his son arrived at the first plans from his confirmation as Alpine’s titular pilot at the close of the 2024 season.

But in these six 2025 championship races only accumulated disappointments: Two abandonments (The first at the premiere in Australia and the last in Miami this weekend), 13th, 15th, 14th and 17th. In addition, he suffered a terrible accident at high speed in the Suzuka classification, Japan. And in the two sprint races that were played, it also had no good results.

“He played background,” said the chronicle of the Miami GP published by the Daily Telegraph of Australia. He indicated that while Doohan had surpassed his teammate Pierre Gasly in the classification for the first time in Miami, the accident with Lawson complicated him. The Australian pilot clarified that he was not “intentionally”, but added that he would reflect on what could do better before the next race in Icola.

“I don’t want to comment, I haven’t seen the repetition yet. As we all know, nothing was intentional. Unfortunately, I was tight there. I don’t know, maybe I had a car on the outside. We have to analyze it, because it did not end well for me and I don’t think I helped him. We just have to keep his head up and look towards Imala,” Doohan projected in a mixed area.

“Unfortunately the things that went wrong this weekend were out of my control, but you always have to reflect and see in those situations if there was something that could have done better,” he closed.

What Doohan cannot hide are the numbers of his campaign. Only once it was faster than his teammate, the Frenchman Pierre Gasly, in the classification tests. The former Toro Rosso also runs an average of 367 thousandths faster than him. That, added to the damage – and the expenses – that already caused the mistakes he made and earned him penalties in his superlicancia, opens the exit door.