The revealing phrases of Alpine’s chief about criticism of Doohan and the pressure imposed by Colapinto since his signing: “It really bothers me”

It is known matter that Alpine is not going through the beginning of the season he expected. Pierre Gasly He only added points in Bahrain and Jack Doohan seems to be far from size in his first season in Formula 1. by inertia, the lazy results generate that the name of Franco Colapinto as a reserve pilot appears on the scene, exerting pressure on the owners of the French team seats and installing rumors on a possible redness.

The force that took the name of the young Argentine to get a place in one of the cars would have climbed at unexpected levels. To the point that The tense climate among the team members soon appeared. This made it clear Oliver OakesAlpine head, having no hair on the tongue to tell that The arrival of Colapintcenter of strong criticism since the beginning of the season.

“I think everyone has the right to have an opinion, but that does not mean that we have to criticize each other. We have seen it recently with Jack during the winter. I really felt bad for him“, Oakes confessed in dialogue with the Podcast F1 Insider, admitting that having a pilot who has already demonstrated conditions, such as Colapinto in Williams behind his, played a bad pass from the personal to the Australian Rookie.

In that sense, Oakes did not hesitate to defend him. “It really bothered me because he is a young pilot and needs to have his chance. I suppose it is part of today’s world, since we somehow open everything to get more content, and to give access to what we are doing. But then the negative side of that is that I think you have much more noise too“, held.

And about Colapinto, he added: “Everyone was looking for him before he even had the opportunity to make his F1 debut and was a bit annoying. Yes, as a team we signed another reserve pilot (by Colapint), but the intention was then to let everyone get against Jack“.

In addition, he proved to be aware of the questions that several lorning fans towards Alpine for not giving a free track to Colapinto and made clear his position. “You can’t always please everyone with every decision you make. Sometimes you have to make some difficult decisions in the team’s interest. You know you are here to do the rightto make difficult decisions, ”he said.

The importance of Miami GP for Alpine

The next Formula 1 stop will be in Miami, next Sunday, May 4 from Argentina. According to rumors, From Alpine they aspire that Doohan gets his first good result of the year in US lands. If not, the name of Colapinto, who will just return to the paddock in Icola (18/5) possibly sound more strongly.