'It's a joke' - Doohan's fury with Alpine explained

Jack Doohan was furious with his Alpine team for his elimination from the first part of sprint qualifying at the Miami Grand Prix, calling it “a joke”.

Doohan, who is still looking for the first points of his rookie F1 season, found himself stranded against the pitwall and had to be pushed back into line by his Alpine mechanics after being released from the garage for his final run.

He was released side-by-side with team-mate Pierre Gasly and felt he didn’t have enough room to rotate his car into the pitlane without clipping the pitwall.

The time wasted proved costly with Doohan falling further back in the pitlane queue and then not reaching the chequered flag in time to start his final flying lap, despite pushing harder than normal on his outlap.