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F1's easily forgotten driver mess needs resolving [ad-free video]
🕑 Added 2025-08-08 11:06:23 +0000 UTCAs Alpine heads into the summer off the back of another miserable weekend on-track AND a heavy post-race test crash, we delve into its still unresolved driver situation - assessing the case for Franco Colapinto staying on, the case for Jack Doohan being given another chance, and asking what might actually happen next.
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Gabriel Buteler
Just curious, if you make an argument saying that Alpine is now relatively so much worse than it was at the beginning of the year (Sauber improving, etc,), how come you think it is a like for like comparison to look at the absolute qualifying and race results for Doohan (a guy who Daddy paid everything for), and Franco (a guy whose parents sold the house to finance his adventure in Europe). I massively challenge the fact that is being thrown around without facts and data that “Colapinto hasn’t been an improvement on Doohan”. He has been, and quite a lot, when you look at objective data. Thing is that so many people like to repeat what is perception from Anglo Saxon press without even checking facts. For the record, The-Race is the best and typically very objective.
Etienne
Good to hear Matt being more active on the F1 content :)
