[Deschodt]

Looks like Doohan is out at Alpine and Colapinto in for Monza, as was leaked earlier.. showing up in the european press now here and there... The "fake" Alpine team manager Ollie Oakes (joke, he just seems unaware what's going on most of the time) denied it at the press conference in Miami but it would not surprise anyone if the "real" manager Flavio made the call after yet another DNF.

Part of me feels bad for Jack, nice guy, tons of pressure from day 1 with rumors of Colapinto... It must have sucked !
Part of me has to admit he has not shown all that much over 6 races so far to warrant escaping Briatore's hatchet, knowing all the time that was a possibility.

Colapinto was immediately "wow, look at him go", then a crash - Doohan so far has been "meh, 15th-18th, or a crash". And Alpine did him no favors here and there screwing up his qualifying, I get that, and I still think it's unfair to drop a young driver so soon, but I mean, look at how good Hadjar and Kimi have looked so far... Can't help ! Bummer.