Alpine are contemplating dropping Jack Doohan from the following Components 1 race in Imola, with Franco Colapinto in line for a return to the grid.
Doohan got here into the 2025 F1 season underneath strain after Alpine surprisingly signed Colapinto as their reserve driver.
The 22-year-old rookie, who’s but to attain factors this season, lashed out final Friday after being eradicated within the first a part of Dash Qualifying for the Miami Grand Prix and retired from Sunday’s race when tangling with Racing Bull’s Liam Lawson on the opening lap.
Sky Sports activities Information understands Alpine are evaluating Doohan’s future and can make a last choice this week, earlier than the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix on Might 16-18, which marks the beginning of a European triple-header.
Alpine have declined to remark.
Staff principal Oliver Oakes didn’t conduct Alpine’s normal media session following Sunday’s Miami Grand Prix.
Nonetheless, he was requested final Friday in a press convention if Doohan could be driving in Imola and mentioned: “Yeah, as it is today, Jack is our driver along with Pierre. We’ve been pretty clear on that. We always evaluate, but yeah – today, that is the case.”
He added: “Jack needs to continue doing a good job. But it’s natural that there’s always speculation there.”
Doohan failed to attain factors in seven races for Alpine since making his F1 debut for the workforce in final December’s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, along with his greatest end of thirteenth coming on the Chinese language Grand Prix.
He had two heavy crashes, the primary within the race at his house grand prix in Australia at 2025’s season opener and the second in Friday observe in Japan.
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Jack Doohan and Carlos Sainz lose management on the opening lap and stick it within the wall at first of the Australian GP.
Doohan, who was runner-up within the 2023 Components 2 Championship, completed a lapped seventeenth within the Saudi Arabian GP and retired on the primary lap in Miami.
Pierre Gasly has scored all seven of Alpine’s 2025 factors thus far by way of a seventh-placed end in Bahrain and some extent within the Miami Dash.
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