I can’t disagree. Doohan is going to have to find something in F1 that we haven’t seen yet from him in junior formulae. The feeling I get is Doohan is hardly going to be stellar. Probably around Zhou’s level, if anything. But it is good Alpine is actually rewarding a young driver who has been through their system.
Think his junior performances has been car dependant.
He’s absolutely smashed his teammates the last three years, despite not being into in a great car.
And his 2nd half in 2023 was way better than the first.
But it is a big step up and he’s spent quite some time on the sidelines.
I think he’s on a hiding to nothing.
The car is going to be rubbish and he’s up against Gasly and all of his experience.
Alpine are going to need the Colapinto cash sooner rather than later with Renault pulling the pin and with the high Latin and South American influence in Miami, I can’t see Alpine wanting to go into that race without Colapinto in the car.
It could work out in Doohan’s favour though as I think Alpine are one of, if not the biggest, basket case teams on the grid.
Supercars have been dull as shit the last few years. The last 5 laps of the race tonight was absolutely nuts
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Also, Crompton still sucks.
They were just hacked for 1.4billion worth of Ethereum too. They’d want to lay low for a while.
Skaife probably still barges him to the side on the way to the commentary box.
I’ll give Supercars that one. That was pretty cool.
I like this, after the race on Saturday Supercars have posted a video explaining side draft.
No click from me thou cause I know about side draft after starting to watch SVG in NASCAR last year!
I always enjoyed Mark Larkham whenever I watched the coverage. He’s probably the only one on the broadcast worth listening to, at least out of the old codgers on the team.
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I read that as you enjoyed Mark Latham when he was on the coverage, and was fully prepared to label you as unhinged. 
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I was about to say the same thing! Thought that would be an interesting career change…
I wish I had Kayo. Damon Hill really is an awful commentator.
Went to GC supercars last year, people might say whats so interesting about watching cars go around a track over & over. I tell you the adrenalin hit you get standing at the fence as they blast past you is something addictive…
Whilst 10 were still showing the practice session, Kayo were running advertising…so you win some, you lose some.
He’s good when they ask him the technical questions about the car. He gives really clear answers and doesn’t go on with mechanical jargon that only someone with an engineering degree would understand like the Supercar commentators (excluding Mark Larkham) like to do.
His play by play and off the cuff contributions are pretty poor though.
This is going to eb one hell of a season if P3 and now Quali is anything to go by.
Jack Doohan has all of a sudden become much safer in that seat given Lawson and Antonelli went out in Q1 and he outqualified Gasly.
Oscar just pipped by Lando, but front row anyway
Very unlucky for Doohan in Q2.
Great to see both Williams in the top 10 - commentary mentioned last time they managed that at Albert Park was 2005, back when quali was the aggregate of two flying laps on separate days. I was at that race and managed some semi-decent photos (considering the camera I had) of both Williams in the Saturday session
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Nice shots. I’ve had a soft spot for Williams from back when Nigel Mansell blew a tyre in Adelaide.
I still have my BMW F1 Williams jacket I bought in Melbourne a couple of years earlier in 2002 (the year Webber dragged his Minardi to 5th).
Great to see them back where they should be.
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Damn that would’ve been great to be at. That was the first GP I watched properly (decent one to get hooked by haha), and jumped on the Williams bandwagon as the only half-genuine threat to Ferrari that season.