Pre-season, those amenable to a wager would have thought the odds on Jack Doohan being fired before Liam Lawson insufficiently lucrative to justify placing a bet. It seemed to be a dead cert, what with Alpine lining up Franco Colapinto as a ‘test and reserve driver’ within a month of Doohan’s low-key first race outing in Abu Dhabi.
In the run-up to Lawson’s demotion back to the Racing Bulls team, there was a good deal of Sturm und Drang about the possibility of Colapinto replacing him. Crucially, though, the source of the noise was Colapinto’s management, with the media acting as an amplifier over the rumours.
