Fernando Alonso to Aston Martin: Fascinating clauses - and colossal money - involved in switch from Alpine
The former two-time world champion, now aged 41, caused shockwaves throughout F1 the morning after the Hungarian Grand Prix by confirming that he would leave Alpine to join🐷 Aston Martin.
T𝔉he contract was of🧜ficially described as “multi-year” - but now new information has arisen.
tꦚhat Alonso’s deal with Aston Martin🌃 is worth an estimated £17.8m (€20m) per year.
♔And it contains an escape route after each season. They describe it as “one plus one plus one that can be extended”.
That would all༒ow both the driver and the team to reassess after each season.
AS also reports that Alpine were willing to give Al🌜onso a two-year deal - this contradicts the widely debated theory that a major sticking point for the driver was that his team would only commit to one year.
Sportune.fr, a French sports business outlet, report that Alpine wanted Alonso to accept a salary reduction and a one-year deal, to allow O🌠scar Piastri to replace him in 2024.
How Alonso to Aston Martin came together
Sebastian Vettel told Aston Martin owner Lawrence Stroll last Wednesday night that he had decided to retire ꧑at the end of the 20༺22 season, rather tha𒉰n pen a new 𓆏one-year deal, according to AS.
The team always knew that Vettel was considering walkin🍸g away.
Mick Schumacher and Nyck De Vries were never considered as replacements. Daniel Ricciardo was a possibility and has since b♒een linked with a return to Alpine by French media.
Alonso had be♌en in tentative contact with Aston Martin, before Vettel’s retirement was confirmed, but from last Thursday morning the negotiations rampe✨d up.
“Probably I prefer to stay,” Alo⛎n♏so told media about Alpine.
But a 𒈔deal with Aston Martin was reached “🔯very quickly,” AS report.
There are no ambassadorial connections to the contract, the Spanish outlet 🍸say.
The announcement was so swift that evenꦕ Alpine were caught off-guard.
Alonso will earn an estimated £17.8m (€20m) each season with Aston Martin. That figure is⛦ estimated to be €24m by Sportune.fr.
Marca report that his current salary with Alpine is approximately £15m (€17.9m) which reportedly makes him168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: the💖 fourth highest earner of the 2022 season beh🌟ind Le𓃲wis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and Lando Norris.
