{"id":402763,"date":"2024-06-14T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=402763"},"modified":"2024-06-14T04:05:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T04:05:28","slug":"alpine-drops-biggest-hint-yet-on-doohan-f1-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=402763","title":{"rendered":"Alpine drops biggest hint yet on Doohan F1 debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alpine<\/a> says it is "preparing" Jack Doohan<\/a> for the possibility of an F1<\/a> debut in 2025 with the French manufacturer.<\/p>\n

Doohan, the son of multiple MotoGP<\/a> world championship winner Mick, is among the favourites for the seat set to be vacated by Esteban Ocon.<\/p>\n

Just days before the Canadian Grand Prix, it was announced Ocon and Alpine would split.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Jack<\/p>\n

Doohan has been present at F1 races this year as Alpine's reserve driver \u2013 a role that would give him a race start if either Ocon or Pierre Gasly couldn't compete.<\/p>\n

If not Doohan, then former Haas driver Mick Schumacher is another candidate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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He is also part of Alpine's roster of drivers, competes for them in the FIA World Endurance Championship, and will make his 24 Hours of Le Mans debut this weekend.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Sky Sports F1 at the Canadian Grand Prix, Alpine team principal Bruno Famin gave the biggest hint yet that Doohan will be Ocon's successor.<\/p>\n

"We are preparing him," said Famin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/p>\n

"He has been testing for a long time. He has quite a heavy testing program, and we're happy with that. Let's see how he develops.<\/p>\n

"He is one possibility, among others, but he is a possibility for sure."<\/p>\n

Doohan finished third in his second season of the FIA Formula 2 Championship in 2023 and won the season-ending feature race at Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old is not racing this year but has been completing testing laps with the team.<\/p>\n

"It's difficult to say anything with Formula 1 is for certain," Doohan told Sky Sports F1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Mick<\/p>\n

"My dream is to be on the grid. My dream is to be in Formula 1.<\/p>\n

"I'm here obviously with the team's reserve driver preparing myself to be in the car. That is where I want to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n

"Every time I get to do that \u2013 whether it's the sim, on track, experiencing myself in marketing, with comms \u2013 I'm trying to position myself to get that opportunity.<\/p>\n

"Nothing is for certain. There are no givens."<\/p>\n

Is Doohan ready? He seems to think so with countless kilometres in contemporary F1 cars putting him in good stead.<\/p>\n

"I think that previous mileage has been very, very high in the '21 car, and two days in the '22 car," Doohan explained.<\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/p>\n

"I felt very comfortable coming into (practice at Canada). Previously coming to FP (free practice) you have nerves, you feel you're jumping up from Formula 2, so there's a lot of emotion, whereas coming into (the Canadian Grand Prix) I felt very complete, there was no fear, there was nothing about feeling out of my comfort zone.<\/p>\n

"I really felt that even with the test times we were going to run that I could actually hop in and have a crack and really do something good. But, in the end, we didn't obviously get to do that and it's a little bit unfortunate, but that is how it is.<\/p>\n

"I've been able to show what I can do in those tests which are much longer, more time than an hour for the weather window."\ufeff<\/p>\n

Doohan took part in a disjointed practice session at the Canadian Grand Prix where rain limited running to just three laps and no competitive lap times for the Queenslander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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