Apr.15 (GMM) Jack Doohan seems to have carried out sufficient to ensure his race seat at Alpine at the very least till the European summer season.
Thus far this yr, strengthening rumours have urged the Australian rookie solely has a six-race contract – that means Franco Colapinto might change him after simply two extra grands prix.
Group advisor Flavio Briatore, nonetheless, appeared to be much less in a rush to usher Doohan out of his seat only a few days in the past.
“Colapinto? Let’s see,” he informed La Stampa newspaper.
“The precedence is to have a top-level automotive that’s as much as par with the 4 giants McLaren, Mercedes, Crimson Bull and Ferrari.”
Certainly, Auto Motor und Sport is now reporting that, in keeping with paddock info, the 22-year-old son of MotoGP legend Mick Doohan has been given “a grace interval till the summer season, regardless of his two accidents in Melbourne and Japan”.
Group boss Oliver Oakes has additionally been typically extra supportive of Doohan in comparison with Briatore.
“He’s carried out an excellent job this weekend, and generally,” Oakes stated in Bahrain final weekend.
“I do know he was a bit off guard in FP1 in Japan, however I feel this weekend, significantly throughout qualifying – Q1, the primary run of Q2 – it was higher. I feel he was a bit disillusioned within the final run of Q2, as a result of he was simply half a tenth away from making it to Q3,” he added.
“Then within the race, too, these first two stints, he did an excellent job. Ultimately it was troublesome with the protection automotive, which introduced everybody collectively. By way of competitiveness, it was troublesome with the vehicles round him.
“I feel he had an excellent weekend, actually.”
