Formula 1 constructor Alpine has instigated a reconfiguration of its driver roster, affording Franco Colapinto a provisional elevation to a principal racing berth for a minimum of the succeeding quintuple of Grands Prix, thereby precluding Jack Doohan from this competitive opportunity.

Alpine corroborated the alteration on Wednesday, twenty-four hours following Oliver Oakes's resignation as team principal; the outfit articulated that Flavio Briatore would maintain his role as executive advisor, assuming Oakes's former responsibilities.

In an official communiqué, Alpine disclosed that Colapinto is slated to partner Pierre Gasly commencing with the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, pending a subsequent assessment preceding the British Grand Prix in July.

Having navigated six rounds of the Formula 1 Constructors' Championship, Alpine finds itself entrenched in the ninth berth of the standings; the ensuing race weekend is slated to unfold at the Imola Circuit between the sixteenth and eighteenth of May.

During the initial circumference of Sunday’s Miami Grand Prix, Doohan experienced contact with another vehicle, subsequently succumbing to a terminal impact on the ensuing lap.

Speculation within media circles regarding a driver rotation was definitively repudiated by Oakes prior to the Miami GP weekend, who had unequivocally affirmed the rookie Australian pilot's continued occupancy of the cockpit.

Doohan, having failed to register a single point in his septenary of Grand Prix starts and with a nadir of thirteenth place, shall assume the mantle of the team's reserve driver once more.

Jack Doohan, scion of five-time motorcycle world champion Mick Doohan, initiated his foray into Formula 1 during the denouement of the 2024 season and commenced the present year representing Alpine at the inaugural Australian Grand Prix, deputizing for Esteban Ocon, whose tenure at Alpine concluded subsequent to a lackluster 2024 campaign.

Colapinto acceded to the position of reserve driver with Alpine in January, having previously contested the 2024 season under the Williams banner, where he accrued a tally of five points following his August deputisation for Logan Sargeant.