Alpine announced on Tuesday that afternoon Ryo Hirakawa. The 31 -Year -old pilot will take Australian Jack Doohan’s car.
Hirakawa It has extensive experience in different categories. He became a super -champion and won 24 hours of Le Mans in 2022, in addition to being a twice as Hypercars in the World Cup.
Now, after a former Formula 1 test for McLaren – as a reserve in 2024 it replaced Pastri in Abu Dhabi -GP FP1 and participated in Haas’ rookie test in Yas Marina, Hirakawa will climb the first time in an F1 car in its home GP.
“I’m really happy, I really want A525 pilot to free training 1 this weekend,” Hirakawa said. “I remember 2007, 18 years ago, the first time I went to Japan Grand Prix. It was a different circuit, Fuji, but it was formula 1 in Japan. Since then, I started my career as a pilot and now a pilot on the weekend will be a dream come true; I hope.
“I hope the time is included, it will be a short session, but I will enjoy and do everything possible for the team, hopefully, to contribute some tune -tune guides. I just want to express my gratitude to everyone to the team for opportunity and support.”
Hirakawa It was just one of the alpine reserves pilots for 2025, which also included Paul Aron, Kush Maini and Franco Colainto.
This has recently been news in the British media for a so -called conversation between Haas and Alpine so that Japanese is a pilot reserve after the agreement is signed between the American and Toyota team, where the Japanese is an official pilot in WEC.
Source: La Verdad
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