Jack Doohan has finally left the Alpine Formula 1 team, eight months after losing his race seat.

Alpine announced on Tuesday it had reached a “mutual agreement” with Doohan to “not continue his driving services” for 2026 to “allow him to pursue other career opportunities”.

Doohan had been relegated to a bit-part position in the team as a reserve driver with no testing and minimal simulator work after being replaced just six races into his rookie F1 season, following a tricky start to the season.

He was occasionally on-site at races acting as back-up for Pierre Gasly and Franco Colapinto, who replaced Doohan and has kept the seat for 2026.

However, Doohan was known to be chasing a move away from Alpine as it became clear he had no serious future with the team despite becoming the first member of its academy to take up a race seat in F1.

“The team would like to thank Jack for his commitment and professionalism to the team for the past four years, both on and off track, and wishes him all the best for the future,” Alpine said.

Doohan, like his successor Colapinto, failed to score a point in F1 last season.

His six 2025 races, having made his debut in the 2024 season finale in Abu Dhabi, featured flashes of potential but also several errors and two heavy crashes - one in the season opener in Australia and another in practice in Japan.

Doohan is expected to race in Japan’s Super Formula championship this year, which could be dovetailed with a different F1 test or reserve role post-Alpine.

It was known that Doohan and his representatives had conversations with multiple teams in late 2025 about potential testing opportunities.

The ideal scenario would be to twin a Super Formula seat with some F1 testing and a chance of a return to a race seat in 2027.

Doohan looks likely to race with the Kondo team he tested with at the Super Formula rookie test at Suzuka late last year.

He suffered a bizarre series of crashes through the test at the same Degner corner combination, which limited his mileage, but was defended by the team afterwards.

Kondo uses Toyota engines and one scenario mooted last year was for Doohan to pair that seat with a role at Haas, which has a technical partnership with Toyota and is running under the TGR Haas banner in 2026 as a nod to Toyota’s technical operation in Europe.