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

After𒁏 the Miami Grand Prix, Alpine announced Colapinto would take Doohan’s seat fo𝄹r the next five races.

Colapinto’s promotion was always inevitable after joining the team as their test a⛦nd reserve driver at the start of t꧅he year.

The Argentine starred duri⛦ng his short🔥 stint with Williams in 2024, replacing Logan Sargeant for the Italian Grand Prix.

His form attracted the attention of Alpine and Red Bul🧔l, with the former ultimately signing him as one of their reserve drivers for 2025.

Alpine’s statem﷽ent when announcing the news made it clear on two occasions that Colapinꦗto is on a five-race deal.

Alpine w🦹rote: “Having reviewed the opening races of the season, we have come to the decision to put Franco in the car alongside Pierre for the next five r🦩aces.”

Later in the statement, they added: “The next five races will give us an opportunity to try something dif𒁃ferent and after this time period we will assess our options.”

Briatore has 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 𒁏Friday at Imola.

“Franco will race as much as needed - I read somewhere that he’ll 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 t𝐆hings - not 10.

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

Briatore addresses Oakes departure

Just 24 hours before the Col🗹apinto decision was announced, team principal Oliver Oakes 🀅resigned.

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

However, Briatore clarified ꦑvia his Instagram account that his relationship with Oakes ꦆremained intact.

“His resignation came after Miami due to a personal issue, and when it happened, I didn’t expect it either,” ꦫBriatore added.

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