A fierce defence of Alpine driver 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jack Doohan was launched in Bahrain.

Sky Sports F1 commentator David Croft jumped to the defenc♋e of rookie Doohan who is remarkably already under pressure to keep his seat.

Since being named as Alpine’s driver for 2025, the team signed the highly-rated Franco Colapinto as their reserve dri🧜ver. Unconfirmed rumours suggest Colapinto and Doohan could swap roles within a few races.

Doo💖han answered the media’s questions about his race seat defensively🍷 in Bahrain.

Sky Sports’ Craig Sla🐲ter said: “There are six rookies but are any under more pressure than him? He had to deal with questions about Franco Colapinto joining the team.

“I’ve💯 been speaking to a couple of people who reckon he enjoyed that, he enjoyed getting pu💧nchy with the media.

“Maybe that lit his fire ahead of the season.”

Jack Doohan 'poor drive' rejected

Doohan drove for Al✨pine in the 2024 F1 season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

He💮 finished 15th and didn’t parꦰticularly catch the eye.

But Crofty insisted👍: “I’m going to stand up for Dooꦍhan.

“I thought he was unlucky in Abu Dhabi. In the first runs in qualifying he was a tenth off Pierre Gasly, and there’s no disgra🃏ce in that.

“He then got sent oꦿut into traffic, his tyres cooled, lost grip. He sꦚtarted lower than he was going to.

“The instruction was to bring the car💟 home and keep it safe.

“What looked 🏅like a poor dri𝓡ve was just doing as the team asked.

“Flavio Briatore or Ollie Oakes need to comeꦏ out and say ‘Doohan is our man for the year’.

“If they do that, the speculation stops.”

Team principal Oakes admitted the scrutiny on Doꦯo𓆏han was “not fair”.

But, Colapinto remains in the background as an 𒁃option for Alpine to swap into their team.

The season begiᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤𒁃⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚns at the Australian Grand Prix - Doohan’s home race - on March 16.