Jack Doohan

Driver

Popular As Jack Doohan (racing driver)

Birthday January 20, 2003

Birth Sign Aquarius

Birthplace Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Age 21 years old

Nationality Australia

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Doohan did not score any points during the campaign, and with a best finish of eleventh place, which came at the final race in Mugello, he classified 26th in the drivers' championship.

Despite describing the year as having been "very very tough", Doohan maintained that he had been able to learn more from it than he would have from a more successful season.

He tested for Trident during post-season testing.

For the 2021 season Doohan made the switch to Trident to partner Clément Novalak and David Schumacher.

He started his season off strong with a second place in qualifying in Barcelona.

He scored his first points with eighth in the second sprint race, and despite a slow start in the feature race, Doohan was able to take second and his first podium.

Doohan qualified fourth in France, and drove solid races in the sprint races for eighth and fifth places.

He would secure his first F3 victory after overtaking Dennis Hauger with a few laps to go.

At the Red Bull Ring, Doohan qualified in seventh and finished in the same position in sprint race 1, but was promoted to third place due to numerous penalties from others ahead of him.

He would finish seventh in the second sprint but was hit by Jak Crawford in the feature race, which caused a puncture that unravelled his race.

In Budapest, Doohan qualified third.

2003

Jack Doohan (born 20 January 2003) is an Australian race car driver serving as reserve driver for Alpine F1 Team and most recently competed in the 2023 FIA Formula 2 Championship with Invicta Virtuosi Racing where he finished in third place.

He is the 2021 FIA Formula 3 vice-champion and a former member of the Red Bull Junior Team.

He is the son of motorcycle rider Mick Doohan, who is a five-time 500cc world champion.

2011

Other than that, his season was average and Doohan ended 11th in the standings, and sixth in the rookies'.

2012

Doohan starting karting competitively in 2012.

He was given his first kart from former neighbor and 7-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher.

He finished 12th and 20th in the standings respectively, scoring no podiums.

Doohan ended 12th in the first sprint race, in which he revealed he purposely kept his spot to block off Dennis Hauger behind for reverse pole.

Doohan would then controlled things perfectly and win both the second sprint race and the feature race at Spa-Francorchamps, even having a battle with Victor Martins in the latter race.

This made him the first FIA Formula 3 driver to score two victories on the same weekend.

He qualified fourth in Zandvoort and ended sixth in the first race.

2013

He had an average first sprint race, finishing ninth but fell back to 13th in the second sprint due to mechanical issues.

He bettered that result and took third place in the feature race.

The following weekend in Spa-Francorchamps was where he achieved his biggest success of the campaign.

Doohan took his first pole position on Friday by 0.7 seconds.

2015

He won the Australian Karting Championship in 2015 and 2016.

Doohan had additional success the next year, finishing third in the CIK-FIA Karting European Championship and sixth in the World Championship.

Doohan started his single-seater career at the age of 15 in the F4 British Championship with the TRS Arden Junior Racing Team, alongside fellow Red Bull junior Dennis Hauger.

He scored three wins throughout the season, with his first car racing victory coming at Thruxton.

The Australian finished fifth in the standings, just one point behind Hauger.

That year Doohan also participated in both the German and Italian Formula 4 championships for Prema Powerteam on a part-time basis.

2019

In 2019 Doohan made his first appearance in the F3 Asian Championship with Hitech Grand Prix.

Driving for Hitech Grand Prix, the Aussie won five races and ended up second in the championship, 25 points adrift of the experienced Ukyo Sasahara.

The next winter he returned to the series with Pinnacle Motorsport.

He once again finished in the runner-up spot, this time behind Joey Alders.

Doohan's main campaign in 2019 would lie in the Euroformula Open with Double R.

The Australian finished on the podium twice, once at Hockenheimring and at the Red Bull Ring.

2020

In 2020 Doohan progressed to the FIA Formula 3 Championship, driving for HWA Racelab, partnering Jake Hughes and FDA-member Enzo Fittipaldi.

Doohan's high point during the season was seventh in qualifying in Silverstone and topping practice in Spa-Francorchamps, but mainly his campaign was full of incidents and misfortune.