Alpine team principal Oliver Oakes has explained the team’s unusually large roster of reserve drivers. Ahead of this weekend’s opening Formula 1 round in Australia, Alpine named Kush Maini as its fourth reserve driver for the 2025 season. He joins Paul Aron, Ryo Hirakawa and Franco Colapinto who were announced previously. Oakes said the team
You may be wondering why Alpine has just signed a fourth Formula 1 reserve driver. There may be tens or even hundreds of thousands of reasons, if not millions. Alpine has already been rebuilding its young-driver programme under new leadership after the embarrassingly disastrous loss of Oscar Piastri in 2022. And stuffing the ranks with
There will be fresh blood aplenty in Free Practice 1 sessions this Formula 1 season, with teams required to run rookies twice in each of their cars (or entries, to be precise). To be frank, a rookie’s FP1 outing is usually not the headliner of an F1 grand prix. Teams often leave it until the
There will be fresh blood aplenty in Free Practice 1 sessions this Formula 1 season, with teams required to run rookies twice in each of their cars. To be frank, a rookie’s FP1 outing is usually not the headliner of an F1 grand prix. Teams often leave it until the very last second to tick
