Doohan replaced

[Dare]

Franco gets his 5 race tryout

https://www.planetf1.com/news/franco-colapinto-confirmed-at-alpine-2025-emilia-romagna-gp-jack-doohan-replaced

[Jericoke]

Certainly a lot going on with Team Enstone, between swapping Doohan out for Colapinto and Oakes 'resigning'.

They've been very unstable for years now, and as a team with a history of success, and ownership also with a history of success, I'm sure it's been very frustrating for all involved.

Doohan didn't have a great start to his F1 career, but I feel like he was let down by the team as much as he let them down.  It'll be a tough ask for Colapinto to step in and prove he's an upgrade unless he's consistently beating Gasly (in which case Gasly should be worried about losing to a rookie!)

[Andy B]

With the amount of damage FC did at Williams he'll need to clean up his act!

[Jericoke]

With the amount of damage FC did at Williams he'll need to clean up his act!

Hard to single Colapinto out for crashing the FW46:  Sargent and Albon couldn't keep it on the road either.  The FW47 seems to have fixed whatever the issue was, and surprise surprise, Williams is getting good points.

In ice hockey, the 'best' goaltenders usually put in some time playing for bad teams, making them work harder, and being much more successful when finally on good teams.  I wonder if that's true for racing drivers going from bad cars to good cars having a leg up on drivers who have always had 'good' cars?

[John S]

From what I've been reading on other sites it looks like Briatore is running a timeshare scheme with the 2nd Alpine seat.

Doohan had 6 races now Colapinto has got 5 races, Jack's backers reportedly paid $10 mill, wonder how much Franco's sponsors have had to put in pot to get him in car?

If Colapinto is no better then who can we expect to be in the seat for the next 5/6 races? 
Wonder if Mick Schumacher has any money left in the pot to make a bid. 

[Dare]

From what I've been reading on other sites it looks like Briatore is running a timeshare scheme with the 2nd Alpine seat.

Doohan had 6 races now Colapinto has got 5 races, Jack's backers reportedly paid $10 mill, wonder how much Franco's sponsors have had to put in pot to get him in car?

If Colapinto is no better then who can we expect to be in the seat for the next 5/6 races? 
Wonder if Mick Schumacher has any money left in the pot to make a bid. 

10 million is peanuts for the Schumacher fortune