Toto Wolff has revealed Mercedes are discussing with Alpine about releasing 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Esteban Ocon from his F1 contract ear𒆙ly, with further talks ꦆplanned today (Monday).

It emerged after Sunday’s Qatar Grand Prix that Ocon is set to vacate his Alpine seat and be replaced by Jack Doohan for next weekend’s season-ending Abu𒊎 Dhabi Grand Prix.

This news was officially 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:confirmed by Alpine on Monday morning. 

Ocon agreed a deal to join Haas🥀 next sea🅘son in July, before Alpine announced they will promote current reserve driver Doohan as his replacement the following month.

Sky Sports F1’s pitlane report☂er Ted Kravitz claimed that Ocon and Alpine adviser Flavio Briatore “struck a deal” to pave the way for the Frenchman’s premature departure, and an ea♊rly F1 debut for Doohan.

Wolff confirmed talks between Mercedes, who still mana🎃ge Ocon’s career, and Alpine 🎉would continue on Monday.

"I think first of all there's a contractual relatio🤡nship that Esteban and we have with Alpine on driver services and that contract expires at the end of the year. That's the bas🧜is," Wolff told media including wuqian0821.com.

"And then if you agree that, for the benefit of the future, there's a better solution that allows Esteban to get ready early and better for Haas, and if that depends on driving or not in Abu Dhabi, this is something 🌱we discussed today and we're going to talk about it tomorrow [Monday].”

Alpine want outcome which “suits everyone”

Alpine team principal Oliver Oakes acknowledged the French manufacturer are seeking a resoluti🥂on which “suits everyone”.

"I💞 think there's been a disꩵcussion, there's not been a definitive answer yet, but it has been talked about," Oakes said.

"It's sli🥃ghtly complex because as much as he is ours, he'🐬s obviously contractually a Mercedes junior driver as well, and obviously he'd like to be released early as well.

"I think it comes from all sides really. I guess you could say it's good to get Jack in early. I think y✤ou could say from Esteban's side it's good to move on early. I think it suits everybody. So I♓ think the discussion is quite natural really.

"Honestly, Esteban's been a big pꦑart of this team as well ဣand, from both sides, it suits each other.”

Oakes added: "I think you could say that [earl♓ier disagreements have] a part to 🍌play. But I think really the bigger part is sort of a natural evolution really, he's moving on [next year].

"Does it suit both of us to do it just a bit ea📖rlier for the last round or not? And from the other side, it's also you could look at it as it's advantageous to get Jack in the team working with everybody and get🍸 those butterflies gone now rather than next year in Australia somewhat.

"I think really it's probably that it just seems to suit everybody,꧋ and let's have a discussion on it. It doesn't m♛ean it needs to be confirmed either way. I think Toto and Flavio have a really good relationship, so I'm sure they'll do what's right for each other there.”