Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer says he wouldn’t be surprised if it was discovered that Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber had worked together in some capacity regarding the fallout between the team and Oscar Piastri. When Alonso announced that he was to leave Alpine to drive for Aston Martin at the end of this season,
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Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Marko has affirmed that there is no get-out clause for Pierre Gasly amid links to Alpine. The French team are looking for a replacement after Fernando Alonso was announced as an Aston Martin driver after the Hungarian Grand Prix. The Spaniard wanted a longer deal that the one on the
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There is a contractual mess happening in Formula 1 right now involving Oscar Piastri and Alpine, but it is not the first one we have seen over the years Michael Schumacher had been contracted to race for Jordan for the rest of the 1991 season having contested the Belgian Grand Prix with them, but he
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Former Formula 1 driver Jean Alesi is confident that, given the right car, Daniel Ricciardo can return to the race winning form he showed prior to his McLaren days. Not all has gone the Australian’s way since he departed Renault at the end of 2020 and signed with Zak Brown’s McLaren team, and he has
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It’s been a mixed first half of the season for the McLaren F1 Team, with Lando Norris leading the ‘best of the rest’ in the Drivers’ Championships, and Daniel Ricciardo outside the top ten. Norris has once again been the star performer for the Woking-based team, with the Brit currently holding seventh in the championship.
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Former Formula 1 driver, Christian Danner, reckons that former Renault team principal Flavio Briatore was a key factor in Oscar Piastri’s shock rebellion against Alpine. Briatore is currently the manager of Fernando Alonso, who is set to leave Alpine and join Aston Martin next season when Sebastian Vettel retired. The German was quickly replaced by
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The summer break is for most a time to relax and digest the first half of the season; however, for the Alpine F1 Team that certainly isn’t the case. It’s turning into the worst summer break that the French team could’ve hoped for, with a trip to the High Court looking all but certain. The
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AlphaTauri team principal Franz Tost has ruled out losing Pierre Gasly at the end of this season amid rumours of an exit clause. There is a bit of a mess happening in the driver market at the moment, and all of it seems to revolve around Alpine, who have had a rough week. Sebastian Vettel
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1996 world champion Damon Hill is amazed at Fernando Alonso’s ability to continue performing at the very highest athletic level even at his age. Alonso returned with Alpine last season after two years away having left McLaren at the end of the 2018 season. In his first spell in the pinnacle of motorsport, the Spaniard
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Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer has conceded that Fernando Alonso’s signing for Aston Martin is the first time he has had to deal with such a bizarre turn of events in his career. Alonso came into the current season out of contract at the end of the year and, despite turning 41 in July, he
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