Alpine F1 reserve driver Jack Doohan feels he’s “extra prepared than ever” to step right into a race seat with the French group in 2025.
Esteban Ocon’s confirmed departure from Alpine on the finish of the season creates a emptiness, whereas Pierre Gasly has but to be confirmed by the group, though all indicators level to the one-time Grand Prix winner remaining with the Enstone squad.
Doohan has slowly been constructing his case for a promotion, participating in personal checks with older-spec Alpine equipment whereas conducting sim work at Enstone and embedding with the group on race weekends.
In Montreal lately, he additionally took half in his first free follow session of the season, though the chance provided solely restricted laps within the wet situations.
However these mixed efforts have has boosted the 21-year-old’s confidence and additional sharpened his willpower to hitch the F1 grid.
“It’s clearly a terrific alternative, it’s my dream to be in Method 1 and I need to be on the grid subsequent 12 months,” Doohan advised SpeedCity Broadcasting.
“If the chance presents itself right here then that might be wonderful. I’ve been constructing and rising with this group now for the final three years, so it could be a terrific transition.
“I went testing lots within the 2021 equipment and in addition 2022, so I really feel extra prepared than ever, I felt extraordinarily comfortably coming into as properly, so it’ll be a pure transition. However I’ll preserve my head down, I’m right here as reserve driver.”
Doohan prompt that he isn’t obsessing over his potential F1 plans however reasonably maintaining his head down and specializing in his duties and improvement, day-by-day and session-by session.“I’m taking it day-by-day and if all the pieces aligns then nice,” he mentioned.
“However I’ll simply preserve working and guarantee that I maximize my job on monitor once I get the chance – hopefully extra laps than ! – and off the monitor whether or not that’s within the sim or with the .
“Actually we’re not even trying too far into the long run. There’s a lot to be determined and a lot occurring as everyone knows, so we’re actually taking it, truthfully, day-by-day, and session-by-session.
“I feel with issues occurring sooner reasonably than later that may all fall into place sooner or later.”
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