A slip of the tongue from a sponsor of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Franco Colapinto’s has forced Alpine to 🎃swiftly address the red-hot driver rumour.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jack Doohan had not even driven the first grand prix o♋f his rookie season, since being picked by Alpine, when suggestions stꦐarted that he could be dropped from his race seat.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alpine signed Colapinto, who haꦗd impressed at Williams last year, as a reserve driver ꧟after naming Doohan.

A hint about Alpine axing Jack Doohan?

Now the suggestion that Doohan’s days in the car are numbered have amplifꦚie⛎d due to a remark, made in error, by a backer of Colapinto’s.

Hor♐acio Marín, CEO of Argentine energy company YPF, who sponsor Colapinto, was overheard speaking because his microphone was still live, even though he was no longer recording a TV segment.

“At Imola,” he muttere🍸d, the context being when Colapinto would return to the F1 grid.

Thꦑe F1 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix is May 19 meaning, if he is correct, that Doohan’s time in the Alpine is drawing to a close already.

It forced Oliver Oakes, the Alpine teamౠ principal, to set the record straight.

“I saw it, like everyone else𝕴,” said Oakes. “I thin🐽k it was a sponsor from Argentina off-camera giving his view on Franco, when he’s going to be in the car.

"I’m sure there’s a lot of people in Argentina who’d like him in the car♋ this Sunday. We’ve been pretty open as a team that tha꧂t’s just noise.

"Jack needs to continue doing a good job. But it’s natural 𒅌that there’s always speculation there."

Oakes wa♌s asked to confirꦇm if Doohan would drive at Imola later this month.

He answered: “Yeah, as it is today, Jack is our driver along with Pierre [Gasly]. We’ve been p🎃retty clear on that.

“We always evaluate💎, but yeah – today, that is the ཧcase.”

Doohan was 16th in the sprint race in Miami on Saturday, then qualif🌟ied 14th for the grand prix.