{"id":524998,"date":"2026-03-07T16:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/524998\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T16:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:34:10","slug":"jack-doohan-opens-up-alpine-exit-2025-australian-grand-prix-comments-reaction-haas-f1-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/524998\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Doohan opens up Alpine exit, 2025 Australian Grand Prix comments, reaction, Haas F1 Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Doohan<\/a> has revealed the decision to replace him at Alpine<\/a> was made before the 2025 season had even began in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Having made his debut at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix<\/a> at the end of 2024, Doohan arrived for his maiden home grand prix as the most under-pressure driver on the grid.<\/p>\n

The belief in the paddock at the time was he had just three races to impress, or be replaced by Franco Colapinto. He was replaced after the Miami Grand Prix – the sixth race of the season.<\/p>\n

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\"Reserve<\/p>\n

Haas reserve driver Jack Doohan.\u00a0NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Asked by Wide World of Sports ahead of last year’s Australian Grand Prix, Doohan shrugged off the speculation, declaring he “hadn’t been thinking about any of that”.<\/p>\n

“Because \u2013 as you all know \u2013 there’s no point thinking about rumours or commenting on them,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I have a contract for at least this year, if not more, so I look forward to many home grand prix.<\/p>\n

“The uncertainties, you don’t bother worrying about them anyway.”<\/p>\n

\"Mick<\/p>\n

Mick and Jack Doohan in the Albert Park paddock.\u00a0LAT Images<\/p>\n

But 12 months later, Doohan said he already knew he was going to be replaced.<\/p>\n

He has since split with Alpine altogether, and is a reserve driver for the Haas team.<\/p>\n

“Decisions were obviously made, (but) not when they were announced – it was a lot earlier in the year,” he said per Speedcafe.<\/p>\n

“It was, to be honest, made before I was even jumping into the car for the first time – before Melbourne.<\/p>\n

“So that’s when it’s a little bit more brutal when obviously there’s extreme outside measures that take control.”<\/p>\n

It was believed at the time the hefty financial backing Colapinto brought to the team, rather than any performance issues from Doohan, was behind the desire to make the swap.<\/p>\n

Doohan all but confirmed that was the case.<\/p>\n

“You know, the aspect of performance counts, I completely agree with and understand that, but when it’s deeper than that, and not, let’s say, as painted as it is on paper, for sure it’s a little bit more difficult,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Doohan has revealed the decision to replace him at Alpine was made before the 2025 season had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-524998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}