This weekend is a non-Formula 1 race weekend after back-to-back early races of the new season but as we know now, Red Bull decided to promote Yuki and demote Liam between the senior and secondary teams going forward for next weekend’s Japanese GP at Suzuka Circuit.
While we wish Franco Colapinto could be right up there at least for their secondary team, we still need Jack Doohan to be at his absolute best so he can stay with Alpine-Renault for a little bit longer.
Yes, he has the raw pace who has the ability to match his team-mate Pierre Gasly across practice and qualifying.
However, his race form still needs a lot of work while cutting those ill-disciplines that alienated some fans along the way – me included to be honest. Although happy to take 13th based on the final race results from the previous one last week in China.
At the end of the day, it’s Alpine’s responsibility to get the best out of their own A525 cars, especially when the Renault engine is unfortunately is not on the same wavelength as other PU engine makers – and yet they’re the only team not scoring any points so far (10th in teams’ points at present).
No idea why their performances towards the back end of 2024 was oh so good at least fighting Top 5-7 to just going toe-to-toe at least against the Sauber & secondary Red Bull cars at the moment.
Fortunately, got Jordan King onboard who is also part of the Alpine squad as a development driver to talk through it with some words of optimism there to our Aussie JD7 O.K!
