Ex-F1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya believes Alpine have already taken the decision to replace 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Doohan with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Franco Colapinto.

Pressure is already mounting on F1 rookie Doohan to retain his seat before his first full season has even begun following Alpine’s decision to bring in Colapinto as🔯 a reserve driver foꦗr 2025.

There have been suggestions that Doohan could be replaced by Colapinto - who caught the eye during a s෴urprise stan♛d-in cameo for Williams towards the end of 2024 - if the Australian fails to perform in the opening races of the new season.

Alpine’s F1 executive advisor Flavio Briatore insisted Doohan will start the campaign alongside 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pierre Gasly, but has not ruled out the possibility of a drive🅷r change at some point in 2025.

And Monto♐ya is am🦩ong those who is convinced the swap is inevitable.

“The difficult thing about Doohan is that from the outside it seems like the deci🥂sion has already been taken,” Montoya told AS Colombia. “I think it will happen.

“I think Formula 1 saw how important [Colapinto’s popularity] is and Formula 1 in the background is already he🐻lping for that to happen.

“That is super interesting! We were talking about the opportunities at Alpineꦓ, the drivers in the academy, the drivers in F2, in F3, very goﷺod drivers!

“Franco was at𒁃 Williams, in the Williams academy and suddenly has a chance to race now. Now, none of those drivers in F2 will get the 💟seat, it will be Franco.”

Doohan finished 15th on his F1 debut at last season’s finale in Abu Dhabi as he replaced 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon, who vacated his seat prematurely ahead of a swit𒅌ch to Haas.

Alpine te✤am principal Oliver Oakes has stressed Doohan will get a “fair crac🗹k” to impress in his rookie F1 campaign.

Colapinto and Doohan’s head-to-head test

Colapinto recently had his first on-track outing for Alpine at Barcelona, as revealed by a video Briatorꦏe upl😼oaded to his Instagram account.

Both Colapinto and Doohan got the chance to pilot Alpine’s 2023 car, the A523, a𝔍s the ⛎team conducted some TPC running.

🧸While specific details of the test were not released by Alpine, it is likely the Frenchꦰ outfit will have compared Colapinto and Doohan’s lap times.

Colap♔into is expected to be first in line to take 🔯Doohan’s seat if he fails to deliver.

While Alpine continue𒈔 to insist they aren’t planning to make a swap, Briatore isn’t afraid to make brutal calls.