Jack Doohan in 2021 he went one step away from winning the world title in F3, won by the now former Red Bull junior team mate Dennis Hauger and a few days ago he made official the transfer from the nursery managed by Helmut Marko to that of the Alpine. The Australian driver will race in F2 in 2022 at the wheel of a Dallara prepared by the Virtuosi team.
At the moment the Alpine has had great difficulty in finding space in F1 for its drivers since it cannot count on the ‘bank’ of a satellite team as is the case with Red Bull, which can always count on its little sister AlphaTauri. In light of this fact, it seems strange the choice by Doohan to leave a program like that of Red Bull which has historically always given drivers the opportunity to prove their worth even in F1 at the cost of burning the careers of several very talented young people. In Alpine this is not the case. Oscar Piastri, reigning champion in F2 on the first try after having managed to do the same in F3 in 2020, for example in 2022 he will have to settle for the role of reserve driver behind the owners Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon.
The son of MotoGP legend Mick explained why he preferred to join the ranks of the Alpine academy leaving the school run by Helmut Marko: “I had reached the point where either I could have won in F2 or I wouldn’t have had other alternatives – he explained reached by the newspaper Motorsportweek.com – faced with this situation I preferred to accept the offer from Alpine, an academy in which I believe I will have the time to become a better rider whatever happens this season ”. A conservative choice that of Jack Doohan, who did not want to miss the opportunity to become part of an academy in which the seats are less hot. The fratricidal fight within Red Bull’s youth program in 2022 in F2 will involve Juri Vips, Dennis Hauger, Liam Lawson, Jehan Daruvala and Ayumu Iwasa.
#Red #Bull #Alpine #Doohan #explains #escape #Marko