Alpine CEO, Laurent Rossi, has launched an attack on Oscar Piastri following the breakdown of the relationship between team and driver. Piastri won the Formula 2 title last year while part of the Alpine academy, a year after the French team had helped fun his successful Formula 3 campaign. There was no room for the
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Oscar Piastri will reportedly earn just under £500,000 a year under his McLaren contract that will see him race with the British team until the end of 2024. The young Australian won the Formula 2 Championship last season, but could not find a seat in Formula 1 for this year. He was promoted to the
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2009 world champion, Jenson Button, had a hilarious reply to Esteban Ocon after the Frenchman indicated that he is the second-best team-mate Fernando Alonso has had. Ocon is the 13th team-mate Alonso has raced alongside in his decorated career, with the first being Tarso Marquez in 2001 with Minardi, who would go on to become Toro
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Alpine reserve driver, Oscar Piastri, has revealed that he was considering calling Daniel Ricciardo to smooth out any awkwardness over the 21-year-old taking his compatriot’s seat at McLaren. Piastri started the year as a test and reserve driver for Alpine, shadowing full-time drivers, Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon. Team principal, Otmar Szafnauer, was trying to
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Lando Norris heads into the final six races of the season occupying the ‘best of the rest’ spot in the Drivers’ Championship, with the Brit currently sitting P7 with a comfortable 22-point-lead over eighth-placed Esteban Ocon. It’s been a frustrating season for the McLaren driver, with the Woking-based side having taken a step backwards since
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Lando Norris has described Max Verstappen as “one of the most talented drivers ever,” and joked that the Dutchman should try driving a slower car. Verstappen’s rise to the top was an astronomical one when he completed a practice session with Toro Rosso in 2014 at just 17 years of age. That was during his
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Daniel Ricciardo’s Formula 1 career may have just six races left, with the Australian currently without a seat for 2023 following his incoming McLaren departure. Despite being contracted with the Woking-based team for 2023, the pair decided to part ways at the end of the current season after what has been an unsuccessful partnership. Since joining the
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McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo has seen his numbers slip on the official Formula 1 game since the confirmation of his departure from the British side. Ricciardo joined the Woking-based side last season from Renault, but his partnership with Lando Norris has not worked out as he might have hoped. The Aussie has found himself being consistently
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Despite McLaren having taken a step backwards in 2022, Lando Norris has once again enjoyed a solid season so far, with the Brit currently occupying seventh in the Drivers’ Championship. After two seasons of battling occasionally with the frontrunners, the Woking-based team have taken a step backwards in the midfield following the new aerodynamic regulations. The British side are
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Red Bull junior driver Jehan Daruvala has been confirmed to be taking part in another McLaren test, as part of the Woking-based team’s testing of previous cars programme (TPC). The Indian driver currently sits fifth in the Formula 2 standings after a solid season, with the 23-year-old having claimed victory in the recent feature race at the Italian Grand
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