Jack Doohan stated he’s trying ahead to the subsequent race at Imola after crashing out on the primary lap of the Miami Grand Prix.
Nonetheless doubt stays over whether or not he’ll begin his eighth grand prix for Alpine subsequent week.
Doohan tangled with Liam Lawson at flip one after the beginning of yesterday’s race and retired with harm midway across the first lap.
He declined to touch upon the collision afterwards. “As everyone knows, nothing could be intentional,” stated Doohan. “Sadly, he bought squeezed there. I don’t know, possibly he had a automotive on his outdoors. We simply need to look into it as a result of it didn’t finish properly for me and I don’t suppose it helped him out as properly.
“We’ve simply bought to maintain our heads up. Wanting ahead to Imola now.”
It stays to be seen whether or not Doohan will drive for Alpine at Imola. Final week the workforce dismissed contemporary rumours he would get replaced of their line-up by Franco Colapinto after the Miami race. One among Colapinto’s sponsors stated his driver would make his debut “in Imola” in feedback caught by a sizzling mic throughout an interview for a information channel in Argentina.
Doohan’s first-lap retirement capped a irritating weekend in Miami. He criticised the workforce after he was delayed leaving the pits in the course of the first spherical of qualifying for the dash race.
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Though he out-qualified workforce mate Pierre Gasly for the primary time in a grand prix, Doohan’s first-lap tangle with Lawson means he stays point-less after the primary six rounds.
“Sadly the issues which have gone improper this weekend have been outdoors of my management,” he stated afterwards. “However you all the time need to mirror as properly and see in these conditions if there was something that I might have accomplished higher.
“So I might be reflecting on that for a quick time period earlier than simply switching my focus to the upcoming race in Imola.”
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