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, wh﷽ere Piastri will debut as a rookie 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꧅ಌ saw Piastri announced as a new Alpine driver, before he denied the team’s claim.
The F1 Contract Recognition🐼 Board ruled agai🎐nst Alpine, and in favour of McLaren, allowing Piastri to make his preferred move.
“Species that cooperate survive. Species that are selfཧish become extinct,” Szafnauer said.
“In the future, we will treasure these lessons and make sure that we eliminate the loopholes th🍃at allowed Oscar to get out of the contract we thought we had with him.
“What happened in the summer was not whꦰat we had planned 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.
That is when Alpine announced Piastri as th♍eir new driver - only to be thwarted.
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 - the long-time friends whose relationship has b♌een up-and-down over the years.
James was a sports journa꧅list at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
