Jack Doohan: from Alpine F1 to Haas reserve and AF Corse in endurance racing
Jack Doohan is an Australian racing driver who started seven Formula 1 Grands Prix for Alpine and now races sportscars. In 2026 he is a reserve driver for TGR Haas F1 Team and drove for Nielsen Racing in the European Le Mans Series, and this winter he races AF Corse’s #55 LMP2 car in the Asian Le Mans Series.
Latest, 2 November 2026: the Asian Le Mans Series confirmed Doohan in the #55 AF Corse Oreca with Phil Hanson and Alex Dimirdjian for the season opener at Paul Ricard on 13 to 15 November. Read the news, and the start times for the 4 Hours of Le Castellet.
Jack Doohan: Fast Facts
- Name: Jack Doohan
- Date of birth: 20 January 2003
- Born: Gold Coast, Australia
- Nationality: Australian
- Father: Mick Doohan, five-time 500cc motorcycle world champion
- Formula 1: 7 starts for Alpine (Abu Dhabi 2024 and the first six races of 2025), best finish 13th
- 2026: Reserve driver, TGR Haas F1 Team; LMP2 in the European Le Mans Series with Nielsen Racing
- Winter 2026/27: Asian Le Mans Series, AF Corse #55 (LMP2)
Karting titles and two near misses in junior single-seaters
Doohan won the Australian Kart Championship in 2015 and 2016 and finished third in the CIK-FIA European Championship in the OK Junior class in 2017. In his first car season, 2018, he was fifth and the best rookie in British F4, with three wins.
He finished second in the F3 Asian Championship, and in 2021 he was runner-up in the FIA Formula 3 Championship with Trident, with four wins. In Formula 2 he was sixth in 2022 and third in 2023, both times with Virtuosi and with three wins each season.
Seven Grands Prix for Alpine
Doohan joined the Alpine academy in 2022 and was the team’s reserve driver in 2023 and 2024, with Friday practice outings along the way. He made his Formula 1 debut at the 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and finished 15th.
Alpine promoted him to a race seat for 2025, but after the first six races Franco Colapinto took over the car. Doohan’s best result in that spell was 13th at the Chinese Grand Prix, and he did not score a point. He spent the rest of the year as reserve, and on 13 January 2026 Alpine announced that the two had parted ways by mutual agreement. A planned move to Super Formula in Japan did not go ahead.
Haas reserve and a switch to endurance racing
In February 2026 Haas signed him as one of its two reserve drivers, alongside Ryo Hirakawa. “I’m thrilled to be joining TGR Haas F1 Team,” Doohan said at the time, as quoted by Formula 1. When Haas needed a stand-in for Esteban Ocon at the Mexico City Grand Prix, it chose Hirakawa: Ocon replaced, Hirakawa races.
At the same time Doohan began a sportscar career. He raced the #24 Nielsen Racing Oreca 07 in the European Le Mans Series with Roy Nissany and Ed Pearson, finished 14th in the LMP2 standings with 21 points, and was part of the team’s crew at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June.
AF Corse in the Asian Le Mans Series
For the winter Doohan moves to AF Corse, the only team with cars in all three classes of the Asian Le Mans Series. He is one of four platinum-rated drivers in LMP2, where the champions earn an invitation to the 2027 24 Hours of Le Mans. The season has two four-hour races each at Paul Ricard, Jerez and Portimão. All cars and drivers: Asian Le Mans Series 2026/27 entry list.
Our read
Doohan’s Formula 1 career ended before it had really started: six races in a car that was rarely in the points is a small sample. His junior record, runner-up in F3 and third in F2, says he has the speed. Endurance racing gives him what F1 did not, a full season of racing, and a strong winter with AF Corse would make him one of the most interesting names on the LMP2 market for 2027.
Sources: TGR Haas F1 Team driver page; formula1.com (Haas reserve announcement, 3 February 2026); FIA Formula 2 and FIA Formula 3; European Le Mans Series; Asian Le Mans Series, 2 November 2026.
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