The Alpine reserve driver is concentrating on a full-time race seat subsequent 12 months, after competing in his third F2 marketing campaign this season.
There have been no adjustments to the F1 grid this 12 months however, as contracts put together to dwindle into their remaining months, the 20-year-old Aussie driver needs to swoop in – however the politics of the paddock are an element.
“The cliff is as steep because it may very well be at that time,” his father Mick Doohan, the MotoGP legend, informed Past The Grid podcast.
“Until you’ve got bought some foot holes to climb to get to F1, however then you definately’ve solely bought 20 seats, and at any given cut-off date there could also be one or two seats out there.
“Then, with how fluid the paddock strikes and the business facet of it, you have to be in the correct spot on the proper time with the correct deal in place. It is without end shifting.
“It is [Jack’s] dream to make all of it the way in which to the highest.
“If I can assist in any method, form or type, then I will attempt to try this. That is why I am at a lot of the races when he attends.”
Younger Jack completed third within the F2 championship final 12 months.
He appeared in F1 to drive in Free Follow 1 classes for Alpine in Mexico and Abu Dhabi.
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Doohan then drove 108 laps for Alpine on the younger drivers’ check after the F1 season ended.
“My eyes are on a race seat now,” he stated.
“I need to be on the grid in 2025.
“So, I’ll stick with [Alpine], maintain working and ensuring that once I’m within the automotive I’m performing.
“Every time that’s, FP1s or testing – to provide myself the perfect shot to get cozy on this [paddock] for a full season.
“It’s nice to have the ability to discover every thing the F1 automotive has to supply, to work via a complete run plan, run schedule, completely different check objects.
“Principally flipping the automotive the other way up and in addition a combined expertise of compounds.
“It’s nice to get 108 laps beneath my belt like I did, and in addition nice for the group as a result of I do know we bought some nice work accomplished.”
