Jack Doohan escaped unharmed after a large 185km / u -accident in practice Friday at Japanese Grand Prix.
The Australian driver, in just his fourth F1 weekend, drove the full junk straight to the right hand of the right hand.
Still, the car went down, with the Drs rear wing still open, and DooHan’s alpine car was violently spuning in the band barrier.
The 22-year-old man looks shaken when he is helped out of the cabin and was judged in the FIA Medical Center in Suzuka, although Alpine did reveal that he did not have a concussion.
Still, the Alpine mechanics will have a massive job overnight to repair the car on Saturday to qualify, with a refurbished chassis and suspension to fix.
DooHan’s accident caused a red flag-one of the four downtime in a bizarre FP2 session that included two sessions suspensions due to fires on the side of the track and 22-minute delay.
Doohan particularly did not participate in the earlier session on Friday-with the Japanese driver and Alpine reserve Ryo Hirakawa in his car for a one-hour practice outing.
Dooohan, son of five-time motorcycle world champion Mick Doohan, had a tremendous pressure at the beginning of his newcomer campaign, teammates with Pierre Gasly, as a result of Franco Colapinto who arrived from Williams as a reserve manager.
The Australian crashed at the opening round of the season opener in Melbourne and finished outside the points and got a penalty from the Chinese GP.
Elsewhere on Friday, McLaren set the early pace with Lando Norris fastest in the first exercise and Oscar PiaTri fastest in disrupted second practice.
Norris leads the world championships by eight points to this weekend.
Yuki Tsunoda, on the debut for Red Bull, gave a solid opening report of himself and ended in the first exercise in the first exercise-only a tenth of a second teammate Max Verstappen.
Lewis Hamilton was the fourth fastest for Ferrari in FP1, with Ferrari teammate Charles Lecler in third and Mercedes’ George Russell in second place.
The qualification is Saturday morning at 07:00 (BST), with the race Sunday at 06:00.
