Alpine boss Otmar Szafnauer reopens Oscar Piastri wound and vows to “eliminate the loophole” enabling the driver’s feisty exit
The Alpine team principal has reopened the old controversy that engulfed last season as F1 gears up for the 2023 campai🌼gn, where Piastri will debut as a rookie driver.
But he is included in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 2023 driver line-up for McLaren, after a 💟messy contractual dispute that initially saw Piastri announced as a new Alpine driver, before he denied the team’s claiꦺm.
The F1 Contract Reco♍gnition Board ruled against Alpine, a🌜nd in favour of McLaren, allowing Piastri to make his preferred move.
“Species that cooperate survive. Species th🀅at are selfi🔴sh become extinct,” Szafnauer said.
“In the future, we will treasure these lessons and make sure that we eliminate the loopholes that all💯owedꦬ Oscar to get out of the contract we thought we had with him.
“What happened in the summer was not what we had planned in December 2021. We can say that we should have done things differen✨tly so that the plan to promote Oscar would actually have been realised.”
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sebastian Vettel’s shock retirement caused 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso to instantly exit Alpine and join Aston Martin.
That is when Alpine announced Piastri as their new driver - only ♈to be thwarted.
Alpine will press ahead with the all-French combo of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pierre Gasly, a new recruit from AlphaTauri, and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Esteban Ocon - the lo🙈ng-ti🌳me friends whose relationship has been up-and-down over the years.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a de🍸cade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
