Australia’s Jack Doohan says he received death threats before being dropped from F1 Team Alpine after six races last season.
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Published February 27, 2026
Jack Doohan says he received death threats and had to call police to resolve an encounter with armed men around the time of last year’s Miami Grand Prix, shortly before losing his F1 drive with Alpine.
In the latest series of Netflix documentaries, Drive To Survive, released on Friday, the Australian driver said he had been threatened by email and described the atmosphere around his final race as “quite heavy”.
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Doohan made his debut for Alpine in the final race of 2024, but left after the sixth race in Miami in 2025 and was replaced by Franco Colapinto. He is currently Haas’ reserve driver.
“I received serious death threats regarding this Grand Prix that if I didn’t get out of the car, I would die right here,” Doohan said in the documentary. “I received six or seven emails saying that if I was still in the car by the time I got to Miami, all my limbs would be amputated.”
Ms Doohan also described an incident in which she saw three “armed men”, adding: “We had to call in a police escort to quell them.”
He did not say how the case was resolved or identify those responsible.
After Colapinto replaced Alpine in May, Doohan posted on social media that he and his family were facing online abuse and suggested at the time that fans in Colapinto’s native Argentina were to blame.
They were the only drivers to fail to score any points in F1 last season, as Alpine finished last in the constructors’ standings.
