Flavio Briatore has contradicted Alpine’s announcement that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Franco Colapinto is on a five-race deal after replacing 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jack Doohan for this weekend's Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

After the Miami Grand Prix, Alpine announced Colapinto would take Dooh🌊a♍n’s seat for the next five races.

Colapinto’s promotion was alwa💮ys inevitable after joining the team as their test and reserve driver at the start of the year.

The Argentine starred during his short stint with♏ Williams in 2024, replacing Logan Sargeant for the Italian Grand Prix.

His form attracted the attention of Alpine and Red Bull, wit꧅h the former ultimately signing him as one of their reserv🗹e drivers for 2025.

𒈔Alpine’s statement when announcing the news made it clear on two occasions that Colapint🌟o is on a five-race deal.

Alpine wrote: “Having reviewed the opening races of the season, we have꧙ come to the decision to put Franco in the car alongside Pierre for the next five𝔉 races.”

Later in the statement, they added: “The next five races will give us an opportunity to try something different and after this time period we will assessღ our optio༒ns.”

B🍌riatore ha🌸s now gone against his team’s statement.

“I have to say🐈, I also expected more from Jack Doohan - maybe he needs a🧔 break,” Briatore said to Sky Italy on Friday at Imola.

“Franco will race as much as needed - I read somewhere that he’l♔l have🦹 five races, but no, there’s no set limit on his races. He needs to be fast, not crash, and score points.  I’m only asking him these three things - not 10.

“If he does them well, he’ll drive forever.”

Briatore addresses Oakes departure

Just 24 hours before the Colapinto decision was announced, team principal Oliver Oakes 🧜resigned.

Initially, it was suggested that Oakes and Briatore had a falling ♔out, potentially over Alpine’s driver line-up.

However, Briatore clarified via his Instagram a🎶ccount that his relationship with Oakes remain🀅ed intact.

“His resignation came af🌞ter Miami due to a personal issue, and whe🥂n it happened, I didn’t expect it either,” Briatore added.

“This is a united team - there were rumours that I had arg𓄧ued with Oliver, but that’s not 🦋true - we have a great relationship.”