Alpine F1 team principal Oliver Oakes has labelled speculation about 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Doohan’s future with the team as “not fair.”

Despite having just one F1 grand prix start to his name, Doohan’s future has r♐emained uncertain sinc🐼e the end of last year.

This is because of Flavio Briatore’s public admiration of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Franco Colapinto.

In January, Colapinto was unveiled as Alpine’s new reserve and t🙈est driver, fuelꦗling the rumours that Doohan was on borrowed time.

Alpine h💫ave insisted that D🍸oohan’s future is secure - at least for now.

However, given Briatore’s willingness to bring ༺Colapinto to the team and the likely financial benefit of having the Argentine in a seat, Doohan is under immediate pressure to perform on trac🍸k.

Speaking to F1TV in the middle of pre-season testin✅g at the Bahrain International Circuit, Oakes discussed Doohan and credited him with🦋 ‘shutting out the noise’.

“I feel for him quite a lot at the moment,” Oakes said. “He🅠’s getting a bi🌃t of flack. It’s not fair. At the end of the day, he’s getting his debut in F1. He’s had his debut in Abu Dhabi but it’s his first full year.

“It’s been a quiet winter so that’s been a news story. Franco is a popular☂ kid as well so people want to see him in the car.

“From my side, it’s really good to have Jack with us. He’s com🍨e from our aca🐓demy and did a good job in Abu Dhabi. Even this morning, he hit the ground running straightaway.

“Credit to him as well bec𓃲ause he’s shutting out all that𒆙 noise and getting on with it which is really good.”

Kravitz questions Oakes’ comments

Sky Sports’ Ted Kravitz questioned Oakes’ response shortly after during F1’s te🌼sting coverage.

Kravitz dismissed Oakes’ notion that the media were to blame for the 🐼reports, rather than the speculation stemmin💝g from Alpine’s signing of Colapinto.

“It was interesting what Oakes was saying earlier,” Kravitz explained. To my ears, was he kind of blaming the media for not having enough to ♈write about in order to write𓆉 all the stuff about Colapinto in his fight against Doohan for that seat?

“The only thing I would say in response to that was that it wasn’t the media who signed Colapinto on a three-year testing role which🃏 is interesting if you’re going to be a three years as a test driver so you imagine that would turn into a race drive.

“It wasn’t the🌳 media who signed Mercado Libre - one of the biggest Franco Colapinto sponsors to the Alpine team - and it wasn’t the media who goes around taking selfies with Franco Colapinto and Flavio Briatore all the time.

“So, people might be a little bit forgiven I would say if I wasn’t interprꩵeting that answer incorrectly for linking Colapinto with Doohan’s seat when there’s so much of it coming out from the Alpine themဣselves rather than people making up stories.”