While the summer break is supposed to provide the teams and drivers with time to relax and recharge their batteries, this was certainly not the case for Oscar Piastri last season. The 21-year-old sensationally took to Twitter to reject Alpine’s claims that he would be racing for them in 2023, eventually revealing that he had
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Whilst Alpine aren’t launching their 2023 challenger (the A523) until February 16, the Enstone-based outfit have given fans a “snippet” of what to possibly expect, with there being a noticeable similarity to a 2022 design. Alpine released a video onto social media showing their new car’s sidepods and cockpit, with it looking incredibly similar to
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Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer has revealed that he spoke to IndyCar driver Colton Herta, as he tried to get Red Bull to release Pierre Gasly from the Austrian’s family. As rumours regarding Gasly possibly moving to Alpine began to circulate, Red Bull looked into signing IndyCar star Herta for AlphaTauri, so that they could
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Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer believes the bigger teams in Formula 1 are trying to “exploit” the budget cap rules by moving employees to different departments to ensure that they aren’t included in the budget. With the biggest teams in Formula 1 having multiple departments and other racing programmes, some of the current teams on
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When Racing Point rebranded to Aston Martin ahead of the 2021 season, Martin Whitmarsh joined the team as the Group Chief Executive Officer of Performance Technologies to work in tandem with team principal Otmar Szafnauer. In February of 2022 however, only a year into working with Whitmarsh, Szafnauer left Aston Martin to become the team
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Having come through the Alpine driver academy and being the 2021 Formula 2 champion, it looked as if the French team had the perfect replacement for the ageing Fernando Alonso waiting in the wings. The team’s initial plan was to loan Piastri to Williams to gain experience until Alonso’s contract expired, however when the Spaniard
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Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer wants to see Esteban Ocon making “better judgements” in 2023 alongside new team-mate Pierre Gasly, with the Romanian-American being concerned seemingly about the Frenchman’s aggression. The Enstone-based outfit enjoyed a mixed 2022 campaign, which saw the team claim fourth in the Constructors’ Championship despite what seemed like endless power unit-based
MoreAlpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer has revealed that the Enstone-based side have lost their early budget cap advantage, with the bigger teams beginning to look for “loopholes” in the current system. 2021 saw a $145 million cap brought in for all the teams, resulting in the likes of Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes having to
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Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer is seemingly expecting big things in 2023, with the Romanian-American firmly believing that “more points” will be possible, thanks to solving their reliability issues. The Enstone-based team had an incredible package for the start of the new aerodynamic era of Formula 1, with the A522 having been comfortably the fourth
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Formula 1 drivers’ silly season was as hectic and unpredictable as ever this season, with the first domino to fall being Sebastian Vettel, who has retired from the sport. Fernando Alonso surprisingly announced that he would be leaving high-flying Alpine to replace the German at Aston Martin, leaving the French team with an unexpected hole
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