New Alpine team mates Pierre Gasly and Jack Doohan posed together at the final race of last year where the newcomer made an unexpected debut at short notice.
But speculation over Doohan’s future started long before he began his first full season, after Alpine hired Franco Colapinto to join a young driver roster which already included Paul Aron and Ryo Hirakawa.
Can you come up with the best caption for this picture? Post your funniest suggestion in the comments below.
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El Pollo Loco
18th January 2025, 8:45
Quick, let me get a shot while you’re still here!
black (@black)
18th January 2025, 8:48
*click*
Nice, this will go well next to Tsunoda and Ocon in my yearbook “teammates I used to have”
El Pollo Loco
18th January 2025, 8:54
Catchy ring tone, Pierre. What’s it called?
Hit The Road Jack by Ray Charles. This is Flavio’s phone…
Constantijn Blondel
19th January 2025, 11:32
Thank you, now I won’t have to – you’ve got my vote :)
Urvaksh (@thedoctor03)
19th January 2025, 12:06
Nooooooo!!! Darn I saw this just as I posted my entry. Haha. But hey, well played on getting that idea before me :)
El Pollo Loco
19th January 2025, 22:39
Our comedic genius is equal. I was just the first one here. P1 as it were.
Miguel Bento (@miguelbento)
18th January 2025, 10:08
Humm Pierre, is that Franco in the background?
Derek Edwards
18th January 2025, 10:19
“We’re gonna remove that subject and put Franco in place, basically…”
Zach Bigalke (@bigalke)
18th January 2025, 11:38
Well played!
Derek Edwards
18th January 2025, 21:58
Glad you got the reference ;-)
Ideals (@ideals)
18th January 2025, 10:41
“It’s such a time saver now that I don’t have to cut my teammate out of all these pictures anymore”
PacificPR (@streydt)
18th January 2025, 16:07
Gasly cranked up the shutter speed to 1/2000 in order to capture all is team mates this season.
Diez Cilindros (@diezcilindros)
18th January 2025, 16:09
Flavio said he will text me but I got bad signal, let me try…
Oh, yes! The message has arrived! It says you’re fired, Jack.
xVx
18th January 2025, 17:14
Ah, right up therenthe contract is declared that at least once a month, we have to fire a random staff member.
Yeah but getting rid our own engine, that counts for a whole quarter.
xVx
18th January 2025, 17:31
Gasly: Smile, we need to have at least one picture together. Briatore told met Franco will be racing soon.
Doohan: I guess Flavio didn’t tell you who his team Mate will be then…
Mike H (@mike57)
18th January 2025, 18:06
Gasly: it’s my new photo app, the face recognition automatically adds the name of my team mate in case I lose track.
Jeanrien (@jeanrien)
18th January 2025, 20:09
Alpine finally managed to get their drivers close enough to fit in the yearly team picture!
Rich Hill
19th January 2025, 0:57
‘Another coming together for Alpine’
Rich Hill
19th January 2025, 1:08
‘You got a sense Doohan was forcing a smile on the FaceTime from Colapinto’
JungleMartin
19th January 2025, 1:45
“At least we can still make photos ourselves.”
EffWunFan (@cairnsfella)
19th January 2025, 1:48
“Hey, your right. There IS a guy up on the back row with a Doohan T-Shirt”.
EffWunFan (@cairnsfella)
19th January 2025, 1:49
Was going to go with,
“Hey, your right. There IS a guy up on the back row with a Doohan T-Shirt ………. but I think it’s your dad”.
But it felt too long..
AndrewT (@andrewt)
19th January 2025, 9:44
Gasly takes a photo of McLaren junior Ugo Ugochukwu walking by in front of them.
Paul (@frankjaeger)
19th January 2025, 10:02
No Pierre! You have to use the other camera, I don’t want to see what’s ahead of us!
Constantijn Blondel
19th January 2025, 11:36
“Smile, Jack, while you can, for you may not be in this picture for very long!”
Urvaksh (@thedoctor03)
19th January 2025, 12:04
Doohan: What’s that music playing in the background?
Pierre: It’s a Ray Charles song. Something on the lines of “Hit the Road…. Track”
Keefy
19th January 2025, 22:32
Do you have to hold that phone so high, the photo will look like we are star gazing?!
Mooa42
19th January 2025, 22:48
It’s not often I can get this close to a team mate without one of us being bumped into retirement.