Alpine’s Fernando Alonso has indicated that an over-emphasis from the team on reserve driver Oscar Piastri is ultimately what led to contract negotiations breaking down. The Spaniard returned to the pinnacle of motorsport last season with the team that helped him win two world championships in 2005 and 2006, having left McLaren at the end
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Alpine team principal, Otmar Szafnauer, will only have an idea of what his line-up might look like this season after the situation with Oscar Piastri is settled in court. Piastri won the Formula 3 and Formula 2 titles as part of the Renault turned Alpine academy in 2020 and 2021 respectively, and he has taken
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Alpine F1 team principal Otmar Szafnauer is ‘confident’ that next week’s meeting with the FIA’s contract recognition board will come to the decision that Oscar Piastri is contractually bound to race for Alpine next season, rather than the McLaren F1 Team. The FIA’s contract recognition board will ultimately decide if Alpine’s reserve driver will race for
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Daniel Ricciardo’s options in Formula 1 are quickly running out, with more drivers now being rumoured to be competing with him for the vacant Alpine seat. The Australian announced prior to the Belgian Grand Prix that as expected, he will be leaving the McLaren F1 Team at the end of the year, opening the door for Alpine
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Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer has no doubt that Fernando Alonso will continue to give his all for the team before he leaves for Aston Martin at the end of this season. Alonso has scored points on nine occasions so far in 2022, but it might have been more had it not been for a
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Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer wants to secure fourth position in the Constructors’ Standings in the final part of 2022, but is not convinced third is possible. Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon have managed 19 points finishes between them so far this season, and the French side recently moved above McLaren and into fourth. P4
MoreThe Oscar Piastri/Alpine F1 Team saga appears to have taken yet another fascinating turn, with FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem announcing that the situation will be resolved through the FIA’s Driver Contract Recognition Board and not the high court. Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer expressed his intent on taking both Piastri and the McLaren F1
MoreAlpine 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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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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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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