Alpine F1 team principal Oliver Oakes has labelled speculation about 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Doohan’s future with the team as “not fair.”

Despite hav꧑ing just one F1 grand prix start to his name, Doohan’s future has remained uncertain since the end of last year.

This is because of Flavio Briatore’s public admiration of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Franco Colapinto.

In January, Colapinto was unveiled as Alpine’s new reserve and test driver, fuelling the rumours💫 that Doohan was on borrowed time.

Alpine have insisted that Doohan’s future is sec🎃ure - ༒at least for now.

However, given Briatore’s🃏 willingness to bring Colapinto to the team and the likely financial benefit of having the Argentine in a seat, Doohan is under immediate pressure to perform on track.

Speaking to F1TV in the middle of preꦓ-season testing at the Bahrain International Circuit, Oakes discussed Doohan and credited him with ‘shutting out the noise’.

“I feel for him quite a lot at the moment,” Oakes said. “He’s getting a bit of flack. It’s not fair. At the end of the day, he’s getti🌺ng his debut in F1. He’s had his debut in Abu Dhabi but it’s his first full year.

“It’s been a quiet winter so that’s been a news stor🍒y. Franco is a popular kid as well so people want to see him in tꦑhe car.

“From my side, it’s really good to have Jack with us. He’s come f🌳rom our academy and did a good job in Abu Dhabi. Even this morning, he hit the ground running straightaway.

“Credit to him as well because he’s shutting out all that noise and getting on with it which is realꦕly good.”

Kravitz questions Oakes’ comments

Sky Sports’ Ted Kravitz questioned Oakes’ response shortly after during 💖F1’s testing coverage.

Kravitz dismissed Oakes’ notion that the media were to blame for the reports, rather than the speculation stemming from Alpine’🅺s signing of Colapinto.

“It was interesting what Oakes was saying earlier,” Kravitz explaꦏined. To my ears, was he kind of blaming the media for not having enough to write about in order to write all the st🧜uff about Colapinto in his fight against Doohan for that seat?

“The only thing I would say in response to that was that it wasn’t the media who signed Colapinto on a three൩-year testing role which is interesting if you’re going to be a three years as a test driver so you imagine that would turn into a race drive.

“It wasn’t the media who signed Mercado Libre - one of the biggeꩲst Franco Colapinto sponsors to the Alpine team - and it wasn’t the media who goes around taking selfies with Franco Colapinto and Flavio Briatore all the time.

“So, people might be a little bit forgiven I would say if I wasn’t interpreting that answer incorrectly for linking Col🅰apinto with Doohan’s seat when there’s so m♛uch of it coming out from the Alpine themselves rather than people making up stories.”