As soon as he knew that he would be replaced by Franco Colapinto as a titular pilot of Alpine, the Australian Jack Doohan sprouted words of grief: “It’s hard to face,” he lamented. And he exposed himself, thinking of an eventual next opportunity: “I will continue striving to the maximum in all possible ways I can, To achieve the objectives. For now, I will maintain the concentration, to continue working hard, to look at the next five races. “Thus, he will be a reserve pilot again.
With the sudden change of the French team, Formula 1 showed its most stark side. He was reflected with Flavio Briatore’s decision and his goal of confirming Colapinto for the next five races, starting for Icola, after Doohan only competed in seven large awards, without adding points and with a 13th place as a better result. In comparison, his partner Pierre Gasly accumulated seven points on the six great prize weekends of this season, his best result being seventh place.
Jack’s annoyance for having lost the armchair among the 20 privileged in the highest category moved to Mick Doohan, his father, a world motorcycling legend with five crowns in 500 cubic centimeters and that is part of the Hall of Motorcycling in Australia. How did you express it? He chose to post two Instagram stories by comparing the yields of Doohan and Gasly, trying to demonstrate that there were not many differences in the final locations. The publication was accompanied by the song ‘Tell Em’ by Squir Beats, trying to emphasize that Gasly’s results were not spectacular.
At the start of the 2025 season, in Melbourne, Jack Doohan left and the Frenchman ended up eleventh, to a stall in the dot zone. The next scale of the calendar was in China, where the Australian ended 13th and Gasly repeated the 11th position. Then Japan came: the rookie concluded 15, while the Gallic ended two positions later. In Bahrain there was the biggest difference: while Doohan culminated 14th, Gasly added points at the end of seventh. In Saudi Arabia: the Australian was 17 °, while the French abandoned. And the cooler history, Miami: Doohan was left after a puncture in the first round and Gasly completed the test, to be 13 °. That action finished sentencing the fate of the Australian.
Apart from the Mick Doohan comparison, throughout the six major awards played in 2025, his son had an average deficit in classification of 0S367 with respect to Gasly, while he never finished a race ahead of the French, except when he was disqualified in China.
Mick Doohan mostly suffered the Jack Formula 1 season; Above all, he was very affected in the Paddock when his son had a strong accident on Friday, during the Japan Grand Prix, folding in Suzuka’s first curve with the DRS open. That clash sued Alpine an extra millionaire expenditure. But he also suffered his abandonment in the first round in the rain in the Australian Grand Prix, to which he followed what happened in China, a scale on which he received four points of punishment in his license for different incidents in the Sprint race and in the Grand Prix.
In this context of unease for the Doohan family, Colapinto was exultant by the invaluable opportunity that Alpine gave, as Williams did last season, a team that entrusted him the last nine races of the season, after the American Logan Sargeant destroyed the car on different occasions.
“The happy wait was long. We are back”Franco said on his social networks, with a photo in which he is observed on his back. It should be remembered that he joined Alpine on January 9 in the role of a reserve pilot and from that moment on the concrete chance of his replacement instead of Jack Doohanthat from the first moment he felt the pressure of defending his armchair.
