Super start of the season in Formula 2 for Jack, son of the five-time world champion of motorcycles Mick: he is immediately in pole position
Mario Salvini
March 18
– Milan
It also takes class to present yourself like this, as Jack Doohan did. Who began the championship as a quasi-rookie in Formula 2, immediately hitting pole. Almost rookie because last year, after having made the Formula 3 championship, he also had the opportunity to race the last two races of Formula 2, in Jeddah and Abu Dhabi, also with a good 5th place in Arabia Saudi. But this is his real first year in Formula 2. And ready go, here he is immediately in front. With all the suggestion that his surname carries with him. In his career, Dad Mick made 58 pole positions and all of them in the higher class. Jack has time, last year in third class, that is in Formula 3, he had already obtained two. And now he starts as best he could not have. Confident of being able to continue growing and pursuing the myth of his father. But without worries, because any comparison would be out of place, as well as practically impossible. Because dad Mick was world champion five times, but in the bikes, in the 500. From 1994 to 1998 for five seasons in a row he was unbeatable on the Honda, for a total of 54 wins and 94 podiums. A champion who marked an era.
missed stages
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Jack the dad didn’t see him win, he was born in 2003, four full years after his last title and three years after his last season in the world championship. Compared to him he has decided to double the wheels. And his father in 2018 took him from Australia to England to race in Formula 4 with Chris Horner’s team, Arden. From there began the run-up. With two final second places in Asian Formula 3, where he won 11 races in two seasons. To then move on to Formula 3, where he did an apprenticeship in 2020 and where last year he was in the running for the title, beaten at the last GP by the only Norwegian Dennis Hauger who scored 26 points more than him. Jack still took his Trident team to the team title. Now he has passed the category, starting from the beginning that Formula 2 already tasted in the 2021 season finale. And above all by entering the Alpine academy, under the British Uni-Virtuosi team. Yesterday he immediately set the record straight, showing that he had adapted well to the new car. He was only one tenth (142 thousandths) behind the French Theo Pourchaire (from the Sauber-Alfa nursery) and the Estonian Juri Vips by two. His rival from last year, Hauger, finished 14th.
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