The Australian has been promoted from his reserve role to drive for Alpine's Formula 1 team next season and reveals the underwhelming precursor to receiving his good news.
Jack Doohan says he discovered he was being offered an F1 seat with Alpine while he was driving home from an average dinner in Spa. The Aussie, who joined Alpine's driver development programme in 2022, says he cannot remember who he even spoke to at Alpine, such was his excitement. 'I was coming back from a quite mediocre dinner in a small little restaurant in Spa on the Monday night, before my testing the following day,' he said.
And there was points of waiting making sure I was positioning myself in the right way. And he had a very rich experience of that himself. And in what he did, he did it very successfully many times. 'So I was, you know, being a sponge, really just trying to soak in all the information that I could get. But he also knew it was a very important time for me, an important time for me to learn things on my own as well.
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