F1: Oscar Piastri supported Jack Doohan after being lowered from Alpine

The leader of the World Cup and compatriot of the now reserve of the French team sent him a message after the decision of Flavio Briatore to upload to Franco Colapinto.

Oscar Piastri is the feeling of the 2025 season of Formula 1: He won four of the six races, leads the World Cup and, until now, beat Lando Norris, his McLaren partner. The young Australian was consulted about Alpine’s decision to degrade his compatriot Jack Doohan to reserve to climb to Franco Colapinto to ownership, from the GP of Emilia-Romagna.

“If it is the end of the way for Jack, I think it can be very proud. It is not easy to come from Australia; you have to make many difficult decisions along the way,” Piastri said in statements to the Today program. “If you have already played your last race, then keep your head up, you have been an F1 pilot and nobody can take it out. I am sure you will have a successful race to pass whatever happens,” added the championship pointer.

PIASTRI knows Alpine’s bowels because he was part of the Youth Development Program in 2021 and in 2022 he was anointed as a reserve pilot. In the middle of that year, Fernando Alonso, who was one of the headlines of the Team de Estone, announced his move to Aston Martin and Alpine published on social networks that Piastri would occupy one of the seats in 2023. The problem was that the statement came out after the expiration of a contract priority they had with Piastri. Mark Webber, his manager, had already closed ranks with McLaren and the Australian left. The loss of the gem cost the position to Otmar Szafnauer, who held the position of director.

Doohan will occupy the reserve position in Alpine. When Colapinto replaced Logan Sarent in Williams, the American left Grove and F1 team. Then he would try Indycar by 2025, but finally retired and began to devote himself to other projects.