Ryo Hirakawa will drive Jack Doohan’s Alpine in opening practice for this weekend’s 2025 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka. The Toyota World Endurance Championship champion has joined Alpine as a reserve driver for the season after fulfilling the same role at McLaren last year. Hirakawa made his F1 weekend debut at the 2024
Ryo Hirakawa will drive Jack Doohan’s Alpine in opening practice for this weekend’s 2025 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka. The Toyota World Endurance Championship champion has joined Alpine as a reserve driver for the season after fulfilling the same role at McLaren last year. This is being done because of FIA rules which
Jack Doohan will not take part in the first practice session for the Japanese Grand Prix. Alpine has confirmed Ryo Hirakawa will take part in the session in his home event at Suzuka. The team signed the two-times World Endurance Champion in January as a test and reserve driver. It announced at the time he
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
