start to the season “hasn’t been bad”<\/a>, despite a couple of high-profile crashes and failing to open his points account in F1.<\/p>\nAside from his team-mate’s disqualification in China, outside of their one retirement each, Doohan’s best finish of P13 is equal to Gasly’s worst.<\/p>\n
The Frenchman picked up Team Enstone’s only points of the campaign so far in Bahrain, with a superb drive to seventh. Whilst Doohan flirted with a points finish in Sakhir, he ultimately came home empty-handed.<\/p>\n
After seemingly surviving the heavily speculated five-round deadline to impress the top brass at Alpine, the Australian is not out of the woods just yet, especially given Franco Colapinto is waiting in the wings.<\/p>\n
Herbert highlighted how each team in the F1 paddock wants the best possible drivers in their two cars, meaning Doohan must prove he is a better option than the Argentine – and anyone else available.<\/p>\n
“I know the market\u2019s probably a little bit fixed for the next year or two,\u00a0or for some of them quite a lot more, if you go McLaren, for example,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But you need to try and grab the best drivers that you can at a certain time.”<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tA touch of the Red Bull<\/p>\n
To explain the task at hand for Doohan, Herbert leaned on his own experience from when he raced for Benetton, one of Alpine’s previous guises and where Flavio Briatore was team principal at the time.<\/p>\n
He used it to draw a comparison with the recent situation at Red Bull, where Sergio Perez was fired for failing to adequately contribute to the Milton Keynes squad’s ill-fated constructors’ championship defence last term.<\/p>\n
“Going back to Red Bull, and even my time at Benetton, it was always about the constructors\u2019 championship as well,” the three-time grand prix winner explained. “So you\u2019ve got to have the right drivers there.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s been Max [Verstappen] all on his own, effectively, although Sergio [Perez] probably has done, he did do a good job,\u00a0it just wasn\u2019t good enough for what Red Bull, again, [with the] expectations that they have.<\/p>\n
“So it\u2019s going to be down to having a driver there that can give them that,\u00a0give them those results.<\/p>\n
“And with Jack, that\u2019s exactly what he\u2019s got to do.\u00a0If he does that, he doesn\u2019t have to worry.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Doohan must deliver points in order to save his Alpine seat, according to former F1 driver Johnny…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[859,4199,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,4200,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-59371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-calendar","11":"tag-f1-live","12":"tag-f1-results","13":"tag-f1-standings","14":"tag-ferrari","15":"tag-formula-1","16":"tag-formula1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motorsport","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114419588954482805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}