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Aussie rising star scores F1 outing in Mexico - CtrlF.XYZ

Aussie rising star scores F1 outing in Mexico

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Another young Australian volition get his archetypal sensation of Formula 1 enactment astatine the Mexican Grand Prix this weekend.

Alpine inferior Jack Doohan volition thrust Esteban Ocon's car during the archetypal escaped signifier league connected Saturday greeting (AEDT).

Every squad is mandated to tally inferior drivers successful 2 escaped signifier sessions passim the year.

Doohan's accidental has apt lone travel after Alpine reserve operator Oscar Piastri signed a racing woody with McLaren for adjacent year, but it's careless 1 he's "extremely grateful" for arsenic helium eyes a spot connected the grid for 2024.

"It's ever a immense honour to beryllium entrusted to thrust a Formula 1 car, truthful to person the accidental connected a Grand Prix play is precise special," helium said.

"Ultimately, the purpose is to beryllium doing this each week and this acquisition is different measurement person to achieving that goal.

"I've prepared arsenic champion arsenic I can, and I deliberation it's going to beryllium precise breathtaking to acquisition the car astatine this benignant of circuit with the precocious altitude and precise precocious apical speed.

"I'll enactment hard connected the day, bash everything the squad sets retired and, astatine the aforesaid time, bask the infinitesimal arsenic I cognize it's going to beryllium a unsocial opportunity."

The squad announced Doohan would besides thrust successful FP1 astatine the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Doohan has been racing for the Virtuosi squad successful Formula 2 this season, and was an extracurricular rubric contender earlier being taken retired astatine Zandvoort.

Doohan was besides a smokey to capable the spot of Aston Martin-bound Fernando Alonso earlier the squad announced Pierre Gasly for an all-French line-up for adjacent year.

He has won sprint races astatine Silverstone and Hungary earlier picking up his archetypal diagnostic contention triumph astatine Spa successful August.

Alpine squad principal Otmar Szafnauer said Doohan, lad of Aussie MotoGP champion Mick, was deserving of the opportunity.

"We person each been impressed with Jack's progression crossed galore areas this play and he's deserving of this accidental arsenic we proceed to nurture his precocious potential," helium said.

"It's important to springiness our young drivers opportunities to trial Formula 1 cars and our Academy programme has proven to beryllium palmy successful doing conscionable that.

"We expect Jack to enactment hard during the league and instrumentality arsenic overmuch arsenic helium tin from the acquisition of being progressive successful a Formula 1 Grand Prix weekend."

Doohan volition go conscionable the 3rd Australian since 1994 to instrumentality portion successful an authoritative Grand Prix play - the different 2 being Mark Webber and Daniel Ricciardo.

An Alpine inferior operator since 2020, Oscar Piastri was to beryllium the antheral to get the drives arsenic the team's authoritative reserve operator earlier his defection to McLaren.

The mandatory sessions are for drivers who person appeared successful 2 oregon little grands prix.

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