{"id":83338,"date":"2025-05-08T01:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T01:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/83338\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T01:34:10","slug":"oscar-piastri-sends-message-to-jack-doohan-following-alpine-colapinto-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/83338\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri sends message to Jack Doohan following Alpine Colapinto swap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar Piastri told compatriot Jack Doohan \u201chold your head up high\u201d after Alpine made the decision to replace him with Franco Colapinto.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The call comes just six rounds into the F1 2025 campaign, with Doohan dropping to the sidelines to make space for Argentine Franco Colapinto, who begins a five-race audition at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

Jack Doohan can be \u2018very proud\u2019 believes Oscar Piastri: End of F1 road?<\/p>\n

Not long after the surprise resignation of Oli Oakes as Alpine team principal<\/a> was announced, news arrived that Doohan was to return to the reserve driver role while Colapinto got his shot alongside Pierre Gasly.<\/p>\n

Alpine\u2019s only grand prix points finish so far in F1 2025 came courtesy of Gasly\u2019s P7 in Bahrain, while the Frenchman added one more with an eighth place finish in the Miami Sprint.<\/p>\n

Doohan\u2019s demotion leaves World Championship<\/a> leader Piastri as the only remaining Australian on the grid, and he passed on a message to the 22-year-old shortly before confirmation arrived, with speculation having ramped up in recent days that Doohan was out and Colapinto in at Alpine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve literally just seen that the team principal has gone,\u201d Piastri began on Wide World of Sports<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, I\u2019ve not heard it officially that Jack\u2019s out, but I\u2019ve obviously seen the talk. I think if it is the end of the road for Jack, I think he can be very proud of, firstly, making it to Formula 1, you know. It\u2019s not an easy thing, especially coming from Australia. There\u2019s a lot of hard decisions along the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, if he has had his final race, then, I think hold your head up high, you\u2019ve been an F1 driver and no one can take that away from you.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, you know, I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll have a successful career in whatever happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

More brutal F1 driver decisions over the years<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc49 Revealed: The shortest F1 careers this century in the brutal world of Formula 1<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc49 The ten greatest mid-season F1 driver swaps of the 21st century<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, the door to Formula 1 has not fully slammed shut for Doohan, and he will be a keen spectator over the coming five race weekends as Colapinto looks to prove himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very proud to have achieved my lifelong ambition to be a professional Formula 1 driver and I will forever be grateful to the team for helping me achieve this dream,\u201d said Doohan.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, this latest chapter is a tough one for me to take because, as a professional driver, naturally I want to be racing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat said, I appreciate the team\u2019s trust and commitment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have long-term goals as a team to achieve and I will continue to give my maximum efforts in any way I can to help achieve those.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor now, I will keep my head down, keep working hard, watch with interest the next five races and keep chasing my own personal goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read next \u2013 PF1 verdict: Fair or unjust? Alpine\u2019s decision to swap Doohan for Colapinto<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri told compatriot Jack Doohan \u201chold your head up high\u201d after Alpine made the decision to replace…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,225,4291,12,1712,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-83338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-home-page","10":"tag-jack-doohan","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-oscar-piastri","13":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114469645789190660","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83338","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=83338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}