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 campaign, ❀where Piastri will debut as a ꦓrookie driver.
But he is included in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: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 claim.
The F1 Contract Recognition Board ruled against Alpine, and in favour of McLaren, allowing Piastri to mak🌱e his preferred move.
“Species ꦬthat coop🍷erate survive. Species that are selfish become extinct,” Szafnauer said.
“In the future🥀, we will treasure these lessons and make sure that we eliminate the loopholes that allowed Oscar to get out of the contract we thought we had with him.
“What happened in the summer was n♈ot what we had plann𓄧ed in December 2021. We can say that we should have done things differently so that the plan to promote Oscar would actually have been realised.”
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sebastian Vettel’s shock retirement caused 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso to instantly exit Alpine and join Aston Martin.
Tha✨t is when Alpine announced Piastri as their new driver - only to be t🅠hwarted.
Alpine will press ahead with the all-French combo of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pierre Gasly, a new recruit from AlphaTauri, and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon - theᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ long-time friends whose relationship h🦩as been up-and-down over the years.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from🦹 American spoꦿrts, to football, to F1.
