Jack Doohan’s troubled 2025
Only seven GPs in Formula 1 and a career that came to a sudden, surprising halt to make room for a driver who wasn’t even that much more prestigious. The dream of Jack Doohan and his motorcycling legend father Mick was put on hold after the 2025 Miami GP, his last appearance in the Grand Prix paddock as a regular driver. Since then, only a lot of time on the sidelines, first as an outcast at Alpine and today at Haas in the role of reserve driver behind Esteban Ocon and Oliver Bearman. But also the choice to try again elsewhere, between Super Formula in Japan (and it didn’t go very well) and the European Le Mans Series. A decidedly troubled year for the young Australian driver, which Mick Doohan himself spoke about during an interview given to the Spanish sports newspaper Marca.
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Mick Doohan’s accusations
“Alpine? It’s not that I can comment on what happened – explains the five-time 500cc World Champion – but I believe the treatment reserved for Jack was unfair. It was like that from the beginning, because they had decided to replace the driver mid-season even before the start of the season. And basically, that’s what they actually did. My son had a long-term contract with the team, he was an Alpine Academy driver and the first to reach F1 from there. But it immediately became clear, for reasons I cannot talk about, how a different direction had been taken right away. And that’s that”.
Jack Doohan then had a couple of accidents in the winter tests of the Japanese Super Formula, having to give up competing in the championship and instead turning to the less exotic endurance category European Le Mans Series, which has always been almost a precursor to the WEC: “Jack is a very strong young man and his plans are to race. Now he is in Barcelona with a racing car, working with Haas as a third driver and hoping to secure a seat. Maybe in a team that has a bit more respect for contracts already signed…”, concludes Mick Doohan.
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