After the first five races of the season, the debantante pilot Jack Doohan Still without sitting head in Formula 1. This Sunday in the Saudi Australia Grand It ended 17 ° (only ahead of the Sauber of Gabriel Bortoleto) and Its continuity in the maximum is increasingly questionedespecially with the presence of Franco Colapint as a reserve pilot of Alpine
“A very difficult day. One of my most difficult in Formula 1 to date”, Australian acknowledged, 22 years after the career in Jeddah.
This result adds to a series of bad actions that have been having Doohan In his first season in Formula 1, in which he still did not add any point. On the first date in Australia, It crashed before the end of the first round. In addition, they took 4 points of the supericance for their maneuvers to detriment to Gabriel Bortoleto (Sauber) and Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls) in the Sprint race in China where it ended last. In Japan, He destroyed the car in the second practice by making a very serious mistake in the first curve with the open DRs. For that incident it generated a Expenditure that would range 1.7 million dollars. In the race, he finished 15 °. His best performance was achieved in Bahrain, where It was 14 After being close to finishing inside the First ten positionsbut five places fell in the grid in two laps. There they also penalize it again.
This weekend, remained in 17th placethe same from which he had left, even despite the clash between his teammate, Pierre Gasly, and Red Bull, Yuki Tsunoda.
Jack Doohan lamented a new bad performance: “Things were not clicking”
About his performance this Sunday, he explained: “Combination of things that They were simply not by clicking. The first Stint did not seem terrible, but obviously I played it with the safety car of the first round. I initially questioned it because, well, we have 49 laps to go here in this hard. And, to be honest, I felt very comfortable in the first laps behind Nico (Hulkenberg). Obviously, Not enough to pass in lines. And so I tried to take a kind of return so as not to be so stuck behind him, and let Everything cools. But if I wasn’t in that 0.5, 0.6 and even at 0.8, he was a victim of cars from behind”
In relation to the next careers, Doohan anticipated: “I think We just have to focus on our strengths. And I think if we put everything together in a lap, we can be there in the qualy. I think that will do everything a little easier. We are going to do our strategy a little simpler, and we will not press to have to do things perhaps so adventurous to try to compensate. Today, definitely, there was much more passing and some more difficulties. But we just have to keep the head down, the forehead up and keep pushing. ”
For his part, Oliver Oakes, Alpine head, commented on the decisions they made in Jeddah and argued what they looked for with Doohan. “We take the opportunity for Jack will enter the first round after the exit of the Safety Car and stay long (on track). From there, we could consider A single stop and keep Jack on track until the end. Finally, Jack had no rhythm with hard tires, which complicated the afternoon, ”he argued.
Doohan had inconveniences throughout the weekend and Gasly took a huge difference in all sessions of the Saudi Arabia GP. In the first free practice, he was 0.944 of his partner, while in the second he was surpassed by 0.806. In the last essays, Gasly remained ahead of the Australian with an advantage of 0.273. Beyond that the tests are usually carried out with different programs, the Frenchman took a remarkable distance. The Qualy was on the same line and Doohan was left out on the Q1, while the 29 -year -old pilot reached Q3.
The expectation of Franco Colapinto to Formula 1 grows
Given the bad yields of Doohan, expectations grow for an eventual return from Franco Colapinto to the maxim. The Australian has a contract with the French team for five dates this season (they have already met this Sunday) and now it must be defined what their future will be. The 21 -year -old Buenos Aires is one of the three reservists of the team and appears as main candidate to replace Doohan in case of an eventual departure.
Alpine is in need of adding units because it occupies the penultimate place in the World Construction Championshipin which he culminated sixth in the previous contest. The points equals a lot of money and each unit would range from 480 thousand dollars.
While European media such as The Racer and Amus said that Doohan has a period of grace until the recess of the European summer, for the moment its future in Formula 1 remains uncertain.
Source: Ambito
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