Jack Doohan’s father has Mick has scolded Alpine for its treatment of his son at the start of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
Doohan was called up to Alpine at the end of 2024 and made his debut with the squad at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
The Australian was retained for the start of the following campaign but his future was under great uncertainty in the build-up to the year after Alpine signed Franco Colapinto as a reserve driver.<\/p>\n
Just six rounds into the campaign, Alpine announced a driver swap, and Doohan was demoted to a reserve role before leaving the team at the start of 2026.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on the situation, Mick Doohan told Marca: “I really can’t comment on that, but I think it was unfair.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was from the start. They replaced a driver before the season even began. And, basically, that was it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy son had a long-term contract; he was Alpine’s first junior driver to arrive. It was clear, for reasons I can’t say, that a different direction was taken.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that’s all there is to it. Look, Jack is a strong young man, and his plan is… He’s racing now, in Barcelona [at European Le Mans], with a race car.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shortly after his separation from Alpine, Haas announced it had obtained the services of the 23-year-old.<\/p>\n
Mick insisted his son is not giving up on pursuing a full-time return to F1, all while aiming one final dig at Alpine.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe’s with Haas F1 now, as a reserve driver, looking to secure a seat and with a team that’s more committed to contracts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Doohan’s father has Mick has scolded Alpine for its treatment of his son at the start of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-605141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1-calendar","12":"tag-f1-live","13":"tag-f1-results","14":"tag-f1-standings","15":"tag-ferrari","16":"tag-formula-1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motor","20":"tag-motor-sports","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-motosport","23":"tag-motosports","24":"tag-racing","25":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605141","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=605141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}