The Real Story Behind Piastri’s Move to McLaren
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- It's finally happened - Piastri's been confirmed to race in F1 for McLaren. But after the Alpine controversy earlier in the summer, there's been an interesting story behind the scenes of how it all unfolded. After the CRB's hearing, Luke Smith, F1 Reporter, looks at the entire timeline, explains what happened and why, and how it affects Alpine in the long run.
0:00 What Really Happened
0:29 Alpine's Initial Issues
2:17 Alpine's "Contracts"
3:39 Piastri Looks To McLaren
4:09 Ricciardo's Involvement
4:56 Alonso, Tweets and Decisions
5:36 What This Means For Alpine & McLaren
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PSA to Alpine: If you want your drivers to be loyal then it would probably be a good idea to send them the contract they keep asking for...
"The real question in this is where was Alpine's loyalty to Oscar Piastri."
And that there is why i believe Alpine has no ground to stand on in questioning Piastri's loyalty or integrity.
Their drivers should have been Alonso and Piastri, or if they thought that Alonso is too old (I dont think so, he is faster than Ocon) they should keep Piastri and Ocon...
@@AlexFernando1996 100% should have been Alonso and Piastri if they where smart... he would be able to teach so much!!!
@paper plane and yet you still don’t understand. Comprehension wasn’t your strongest subject at school I’m sure.
@paper plane thanks for now confirming you are a fool
Millions of bucks and an f1 drive
Thank you, Luke & Autosport, for spending the time getting the detail needed for this video. I always felt that Alpine had dropped the ball (would seem many times), and with the amount of guilt that was being thrown at Piastri, it didn't seem that was a sign of a team that had a contract in place, so the CRB decision wasn't a surprise. What was a surprise was the behaviour of Alpine and how bad they handled this; I hope someone is fired over this, as blaming Piastri is just unfair. Once again, great job
Mark should get a kudos for a great job on managing Piastri. Shame on Alpine and Toto Wolf for painting Piastri as the villains.
Just another proof how ruthless F1 can be, don't believe when a team talking about loyalty. People need to remember 2020 Checo was fired from Racing Point. Eventhough he was loyal driver for them and drive since they were Force India, but glad for him after that he gave them the only win and Red Bull contracted him.
Absolutely, the Perez thing was absurd, but he obviously has not only tons of talent but "divine merit" as Buddhists like to say, for the Red Bull deal was more than deserved. And Aston Martin only going down the ladder on the constructors bunch must be somewhat sattisfying for Checo.
Man, I was thinking about Checo's 2020 season earlier. What a roller-coaster for him: going from being almost forced into retirement to being recruited at the front of the grid. I still think the Sakhir Grand Prix is the greatest race I've ever watched
Reminds me of myself. My old employer wanted my loyalty while screwing me over and over again giving me promises they never meant to fulfill. And I was the one portrayed as a traitor for leaving for a competitor.
Fantastic video Autosport. Now everyone understands what caused all this. Piastri did what every sensible young talent would've. Alpine is the one who showed no commitment to Piastri. Great job by Mark Webber and fantastic play by McLaren.
Loyalty is a two way street, just wondering why on earth Alpine's legal team thinks there is evrn slightest chance to win this case given all the documents they have on hand, but not one is a signed contract with Piastri.
Peter Windsor should watch this video. He is still going on about Piastri's lack of loyalty and legal loopholes etc. Guy's delusional or suffering dementia.
Great video. Hard to argue Piastri did even the slightest thing wrong given that timeline. “Where was Alpine’s loyalty to Piastri?”….exactly
The only reason Toto is upset with this is because he's doing the exact same thing to Nick dev.
And Nyck has indeed left the Mercedes family to become a full time F1 driver for AlphaTauri in 2023.
This is the best analysis of this matter. The fact that Alpine thought it had a solid claim for a legally binding agreement on the strength of a heads of agreement that expressly stated was non binding, and then spent £500k + to argue this before the CRB tells you a lot about their management or advice they're getting!
Yeah it sounds like Alpine needs new lawyers lol
What I still want to know is what was Alpine's motivation with that press release? That was just weird.
The motivation appeared to be the fact Piastri was told while he was in the simulator that, he would be in the Alpine seat for the next 2 years, his response was to just smile at OS. Apparently, in private he claims he told them he wouldn’t be driving for them.
@@shanesimpson645 he told them after he had signed with McLaren, so they already knew when Otmar spoke to him in the simulator. Honestly seems like they only tried to mention it to him when he was in a position that made him look bad if he said no, I.e in presence of someone who isn't aware of the situation or by making a public statement without his consent
Legal Loophole, If Piastri doesn't denounce it they would have argued he agreed and changed his mind or something. Piastri even said he had to make that public statement for legal reasons
With this fuller picture I hope Peter Windsor will issue a revised statement.
No that hack is still bad mouthing Piastri.
That won't happen lol
Thank you for this. Alpine's actions were actually worse than you make out. They were intentionally jerking him around thinking that they could back him into a corner and get him to take essentially whatever they wanted to give him in the end regardless of the Term Sheet because he would really have no other option.
And I hope people understand that this nonsense about loyalty and how much Alpine spent preparing him are just that, nonsense. Piastri rendered services for Renault and Alpine and was paid for that, period. Those costs were already incurred by Renault and Alpine. A future contract is just that, a contract for future services. Ask anyone, like me, who has negotiated new contracts between parties who already had a contractual relationship. The past is the past. It may be relevant to trusting or understanding the other party's needs, but that's about it. If Alpine had really seen PIastri as investment, they would have signed him, period. Alpine was looking ahead and assumed that Fernando would be in the car for 202, 3 but failed to consider a worst case scenario where they would need another driver for 2023. Alpine do not need to know specifically that Vettel would retire, Fernando leave, etc. Alpine just needed to consider a more general what if worse case driver scenario.
Toto and others talking about the bad precedent this sets are concerned about one thing: getting and keeping control of young talent. That is it. They want that talent and don't want anyone else to have it. There are 20 seats in F1 and a lot more drivers capable of filling those seats than everyone would have you believe. Young drivers are easily manipulated and will work for cheap.If Bottas had performed, Russell would have been stuck in that Williams until his contract with Toto expired. Gasly is getting out of his Red Bull contract because they are going to get paid and Gasly will go to a team that Red Bull knows is not competitive.
I wonder if Renault directors aren't berating Alpine F1 managers about this... something tells me they are. In retrospect, had they been less 'confident' and less arrogant throughout this process (and a bit smarter), perhaps the best move would have been dropping Ocon, and signing Alonso and Piastri on two year deals, and having Alonso mentoring Piastri in the process. Ever since the days of Alain Prost in the 1980s, Renault seems to systematically drop the ball as they have just done now.
Kinda sad that Toto and PWinsor kinda insist Piastri should have been loyal to Alpine
Just ignore them.
He had the choice to remain being a nyck de vries or actually race in F1
i agree. Mercedes is doing much the same: dangling a carrot in front of Nyck.
These young drivers need certainty. This means they MUST have a legally binding CONTRACT. Alpine got what they deserved.
People who trash talked Piastri owe him an apology. I hope Piastri does well. He didn't deserve all this shit. All blame is on Alpine.
I don't think many people had problems with him jumping ship. Tats normal. People's main issue was his tweet, that was very immature thing to do. And no we don't owe him an apology for that
@@phoenix2225 Really? His tweet was simply stating the truth. He was not driving for Alpine and the team telling the world otherwise was wrong. What's immature about that exactly...
The likes of Peter Windsor jumped the gun and accused Piastri of disloyalty etc before truth emerged.
@@phoenix2225 He simply stated that he didn't sign a contract with Alpine and wouldn't be driving for them. How much more mature do you want him to be??
nice editing!!! (info is also very good too!)
Well articulated. Bravo! Good luck Oscar, wishing you a great start to your F1 career
Great video and I'm glad Oscar is joining McLaren! I'm so glad the timeline is in the open, I hope some DR fans still able to use logic can see his post for what it was, a selfish play for monetary gain, with no regards for the hundreds of employees, who has worked so hard to provide a car more suited to him this year.
It saddens me that people were so quick to spread hate for McLaren, just because DR is a popular personality, this is a sport at the end of the day and he is not delivering the points directly linked to salaries and future car development. McLaren has just been decisive and doing right by the whole team, well done Zak and Andreas on a well ran team.
Big Dick Rick is one of my favorite driver, but having Oscar in the McLaren car is great news for fans. He will be fighting along side Lando
I didn’t see much hate for McLaren, if at all. It was mainly centered at Piastri for showing no loyalty to Alpine, and we can safely say that was BS.
Best re-cap of this i've seen. thanks guys
Thank you for the clarity.
Thanks for this detail. Provides a clear and complete picture.
Alpine could have had Piastri if they had treated the human part of Formula One with more due care and attention. I have zero sympathy for them in this. Mclaren are the big winners in all of this - gaining whilst simultaneously hurting the opposition.
solid video. huge thanks for such a succinct narrative.
Thank you for explaining! This has been very confusing until now
Thanks for clearing out our doubts!
Wish i could like this more than once.
Thanks for clearing this up. Excellent explainer.
Excellent. The most comprehensive and logically explained chronological description to date. This should be must see for anyone who follows F1.
Well said!
Mark Webber: Yeah nah yeah look Oscar it’s not bad being a Number 2 driver at McLaren in your rookie season. So let’s make the deal!
This whole Piasco have made Alpine looked like an absolute incompetent idiot.
Great insight
This is the way I have seen it since it began. A driver wants to race, and at a competitive team.
How can anyone blame Piastri.
Complete mismanagement by Alpine.
Had Alonso stayed with Alpine, Piastri could potentially have been a reserve driver again. Such a joke.
This is all the doing of Laurent Rossi, Prost had previously warned Luca De Meo about him running an F1 team, but unfortunately got sacked for doing so. There’s ex Enstone staff coming out now talking about this
`Rossi fired Mia the guy who signed Piastri to begin with at the start of this year. Great way to foster loyalty with Piastri by firing the guy he would feel most loyalty towards at Alpine
So Ricciardo knew about it earlier and that post was to get a better payoff
Not sure , more to send a signal
Yeah a negotiating tactic.
I mean he had a contract. If McLaren wanted him gone they'd have to buy him out either way. Don't blame either side.
Well done Oscar, master of your fate, captain of you soul!
Every video on this makes Alpine look worse, I swear. Thank you for laying it out so clearly.
When it come to contracts Alpine is as bad as Ferrari in strategy. Nice video. Keep up the good work.
Preach the truth
Team enstone has been such a hot box of chaos for years.. the fact that the team does as well as it does despite this is either really impressive or a huge embarrassment for the rest of the midfield 😂
Sounds like Alpine didn't have their sh*t together and were dragging their feet on getting a contract finalized. And finally thank you Autosport for creating this video putting a good time line in place.👍
Alpine: "We look like a bunch of wankers".
Laurent Rossi being the Chief Wanker In Charge!
Finally a video calling Alpine out on shitting on Piastri.. never giving him a contract and then attacking him in public when he asks someone else for one
Unsubscribed from Peter Windsor, how he is trying to tarnish this kids name is appalling
Because the puff peaces he did with the bearded Rich energy dude wasn’t enough of a red flag?
You can also look into his background a little more. There was this whole USF1 disaster he did that was ridiculous.
Also I’m not sure how the whole thing was settled, but he was driving the car that put Frank Williams in a wheelchair when he worked for him.
He seems to be just a grift in F1. I may be wrong, I’m only basing these things on videos I’ve seen of him, and some reports, but he doesn’t seem like a good dude.
I used to read his columns in F1 racing when I was a teenager and thought they were pretty good takes, but there has been too many instances where he just came off in bad taste.
How many times have we ALL seen this??! Company A treats their employees like sh*t, give them loads of waffle and BS. Eventually an employee says, ‘sod this, I’m off’ and company A is surprised and upset, tries to persuade the employee to stay (employee is a fool if they do) then they throw mud at the now ex-employee and brand them as 'rubbish' and ‘disloyal’…??
Does this mean Williams is missing a driver for 2023? Also why didn’t Alpine offer Alonso a 2 year deal?
I haven't seen anything from Williams side during this. Did Alpine actually have a secure deal with Williams to put Piastri there or was it something they were just thinking about? It all seems an odd move for Williams, tbh.
Alpine seems to have been indecisive, noncommital, and simply ran out of time and options.
@@bakedbeings and lost
I cannot understand why Alpine went to the the CRB. Surely there own lawyers should have seen how flimsy their case was and they got a bill for $500000. It comes out now, and I appreciate the thoroughness of this vid, that Mclaren and Piastri and management had acted completely correctly. Even Daniel had no cause for complaint.
Actually considering McLaren signed Piastri behind his back WHILE he was still contracted, I say he has some cause for complains.
@@kicapanmanis1060 First Piastri is not complaining he is very happy. Second you cant sign a driver behind his back as his signature has to be on the contract! It was Piastri management that approached Mclaren and finally he was not contracted at all and it cost Alpine 1/2 million in costs for wasting the CRB time. Did you watch this video. Nobody after seeing this video would write the rubbish you have just written.
My view was always at the start of 2022 alpine we’re kicking the can down the road with Oscar. The Australian press covered every word and to me it seemed they were playing him. As it turns out, in my opinion, they were.
No wonder Alonso left them!
Those McLaren haters and Dani ric fans not going to like this
If Briattore had been at Alpine, this story woyld have been completely different
Who wants to be a George Russell, being Wolff’s loyal man and got stuck at Williams for 3 years, and only got back to the works team when the team was not competitive.
Red Bull. They have been pretty ruthless with their drivers haven’t they?
.. Yeah i think they did him a disservice keeping him at Williams that long...
The Merc is still a great car and a great team with potential to challenge in the next couple of years and, for all Russell knew, could've been the best car this year. They were also honest with him. I doubt he regrets it.
Staying at Williams for 2 year (so 3 years after his F2 win) to then get a drive in an Alpine would be a much worse deal, especially given there was a chance to drive a similarly placed car without delay and Alpine had not been honest and reasonable in their dealings. No comparison.
George Russell has 188 points, Carlos Sainz has 175 points, and the person who replaced George at Williams has 4 points. So lots of drivers want to be in the position of George Russell.
Finally an ELI5 version of this.
This is the video which was needed. Now everyone can say alpine should have shown some integrity. They were literally trying to screw piastri
It was like a Hip Hop 360 deal contract, keep him locked in. Unfair for the young driver.
I still don't understand why they were trying to keep alonso for so much. No offense to him, but Ocon, which is a rooky compared to Alonso, score the same amount of points than his team mate. I do understand that Alonso can bring some "professionalism" and "experience", but so does Alpine since they are a rebranding of the former Renault F1 team. They should have sufficient knowledge about how to built a competitive car and great race stratgies.
On the other hand, Alonso is aging, bringing several disadvantages, which the majors are: (1) loss of physical capabilities (like reflexes, strengths, etc.) that are important for F1 racing considering the speed and g-forces applied, (2) risk of not being capable to adapt to the current and futur new cars.
Even with track experience, there are plenty of example of young drivers that perform just better probably due to their younger physical shape and their lack of experience with former cars. I mean, the most striking example is ricardo and noris, but you could also see ocon and alonso, hamilton and russel, or even saintz and leclerc.
Now, they had Piastri for year. he is not only younger, but just destroying the GP he was participating in, even driving better in F2 than actual F1 drivers when they were in the same league.
Yet, for some reasons, Alpine decided to keep Alonso while they had that golden boy for years.
In that regard, Alpine truely deserve their poor decision making, and I do hope they will learn from this experience. If you have an exellent driver, use it, don't let it go.
Because Alonso is faster than Ocon, without mechanical issues, he would be 30 points ahead of Ocon
But Piastri is a big potential, I would keep Piastri instead of Ocon
You cannot talk about integrity when you cannot keep your own dates for contracts.
Mark Webber's stock as a manager will also have risen greatly during this episode.
Certainly picked up a few tricks from Briatore.
Very interesting report, but with no sources named, it's hard to weigh it. Is this based on first-hand information, or is it a rehashing of other Internet reporting (which is sadly common in the F1 world)?
Most of the details he stated came out the same day as the crb finding and have been confirmed from multiple sources.
@@SpeedyCM I'm not criticizising this channel specifically, but there is a tendency in F1 reporting for "multiple sources" to confirm each other, with no actual concrete source for the information. Stating sources in reports would lend much credibility.
@@dougmeredith8055 it came from the CRB report. And quotes from Piastri/Webber and listing some facts like Otmar wasn’t part of this mess when it started.
The only speculation was that Ricciardo made that statement as a bargaining tool, not an actual intent to drive. But they probably right about that.
@@dougmeredith8055 Reporters have the CRB report! It is supposed to be confidential but even Sidel knows it was leaked some how and told them if they have it read it.
I’m in the middle on this one. Alpine poured big money into this kid. On the other hand they haven’t shown him loyalty but offering a seat just stuffed him around.
Piastri had alot of his own Sponsorship, the rest he worked for Renault's slave jobs!
Oh my, Alpine is worse than me in doing stuff before deadline. I'm horrible procrastinator but my god Alpine, wtf are you doing!
Alpine is the official dumping ground for F1. Piastri is too good for them
Alpine had no trust in Piastri and dragged him around until he up and left.
I suspected Daniel's video was a tactical move. What a great video on this situation. Wish some others (WTF1) would watch this before making their "BETRAYED" video about Ricciardo
Yes and if McLaren are being the saints presented in this video, why they didn't just announce publicly since July 4 when they signed the almighty "Race Contract" with Piastri? If they are so fair and don't work dirty behind the scense, why keep it hidden for so long?
Because there was no solid decision at that point. Piastri was signed as a reserve driver with the potential for a race seat, not as a confirmed race driver. And if they didn't know what was happening for certain with Daniel at that point they would have wanted time to make that decision and then give Daniel time to find a new seat before starting the chain of announcements
@@sukispicer686 They could've announced exactly that, the truth. That they signed a contract with Piastri for 2023 as a reserve driver and beyond 2023 as a race driver. Why couldn't this be announced if everything was clean and fair? But precisely the fact that they kept it secret and worked behind the scenes is what makes it suspect. Either Webber and the Piastri camp were playing at both ends, not making a clear commitment to either party, waiting for the best offer, or McLaren were doing something fishy with that contract or not telling Ricciardo. All I'm saying is that all the parties involved in this had their share of blame in how the whole situation turned out. Not how Autosport is trying to paint it in this video, that McLaren and Piastri's side did nothing suspect. Even if Alpine may be predominantly to blame, McLaren and Webber are definitely not 100% clean either, since they elected to not tell the truth and make that contract public from the moment it was signed.
@@mihaitmf I don't think it's entirely as simple as just making a contract public as soon as it's signed, though I totally agree it should be the way things go. Usually both teams relating to the driver need to be ready to make an announcement at the same time- one letting the driver go and one saying they're signing the driver, I can't remember a time in recent history it's been done differently. There's often some legal reasons too for not announcing things, so it might not be as simple as wanting to hide the truth. Piastri/Webber most certainly could not have announced it on their own, it's always done by the teams, so that at least is not their fault.
Ultimately it's impossible to know what was going on inside both camps, but it definitely sounds like Alpine wouldn't have being willing to post that Piastri was no longer driving for them seeing as they posted the opposite depsite knowing he had signed elsewhere. Whatever the reason for that (maybe to keep the pressure on Alonso for his negotiations) it could have been a stalling point. Maybe McLaren were wanting to not put more speculation on Ricciardo whilst his seat was under pressure. Maybe everyone was being awful behind the scenes, we'll probably never know. I would just say that Alpine seem to have had a run of pretty bad looking decisions made recently (eg Prost being pushed out) in the run up and maybe this situation is just causing confirmation bias, but I do think they take the majority in not all of the blame. Again, not saying the others are definitely blameless but Alpine definitely made the biggest mess of anyone, and if Piastri hadn't been forced to write that tweet, who knows how this would have turned out.
@@sukispicer686 you made some good points and I agree with most of them, thanks for taking the time to reply.
In the end it's an unfortunate situation which didn't help anyone. I still feel it could've been avoided if either party displayed more honesty and made the matters transparent a bit earlier. It's a shame because the only winner in all this is the press, who had a hot topic to write about. Alpine lost the most obviously, and paid the price for its mistakes. They lost both of its drivers, Alo and Pia, paid a lot of money as the contract dispute fees and, not least, its reputation has taken a massive blow. While Piastri's debut at McLaren is a bit tainted by this scandal, but what's more is he will face immense pressure next year to deliver. It cost McLaren a lot of money to make the seat available to him (the compensation paid to Ric) and the expectations are super high now.
Let's see how it develops. Cheers!
Remember when F1 was about speed, engines, car design ?
This video is great coverage of what F1 has been talking about for the last 2 months.
I miss the time of speed, engines ...
Um drivers has always a big part of F1 last time I checked......
Alonso then = burning his own bridges ☹
Alonso now = burning other people's bridges 😁
What alonso did wrong here? I suppose that you are British and you hate him...
Man you are just clueless. Alonso did nothing wrong but because of him, all of this happened, thus, Alonso is indirectly burn someone else's bridges.
This video clears a lot of things up, but it does not mention how transparent Piastra and his management were towards Alpine about their progress with McLaren. Even though Alpine should have tried harder and done a better job, I think they still would have deserved to be informed about that. If it turns out they were aware of the McLaren talks, well they're just daft.
According to the Piastri camp they informed Alpine of the McLaren signing straight after the signing in July, reportedly Alpine were told several times Piastri had signed with McLaren prior to Alpine announcing Piastri would be an Alpine driver in 2023. There is an interview with Piastri on the official F1 website that mentions this.
@@SpeedyCM My point was rather that I hoped that Piastra et al had informed Alpine about their negotiations with another team before they signed. I think Alpine would have deserved that after their formidable investment in Piastri.
They were informed, its why Piastri was due to hit the track at silverstone and then france and then spa in a FP1 session but never did, Alpine knew he was leaving so they cancelled it.
By the same token, did Alpine were transparent and informed Piastri that they weren't actually seriously about signing him to a proper F1 contract and were just trying to string him along? The street goes both ways. If Alpine didn't inform Piastri, why should Piastri inform Alpine?
@@kwan3560 Because Alpine funded his career. That's why. At the very least I would think that buys them transparency. Naturally both parties would have been best served by mutual transparency.
Piastri did nothing wrong.
The Mother of all Silly Seasons
Great video. Another team -beside Mercedes- trying to cover up their mistakes by presenting a different realiteit.
I think you misspelled Ferrari there
This type of game playing by Liberty Media, Teams and historically the FIA does not do F1 any good. Alpine's legal team need to change their procedures.
Liberty Media are playing such games with the historic circuits. What is the point of an F1 season if it does not include the key circuits and swaps them with car park circuits in the US or the locations in the Middle East which come with unacceptable human rights problems.
Meanwhile endurance and historic racing is simply going to replace F1 if it sells itself to the devil.
i dont get what this video wants to convey.... piastri had a contract with alpine for a f1 sear for 2023 regardless of if it would be williams or alpine. He is arrogant, preferred mclaren from williams and signed for alpine. I disagree with your ending phrase.
Finally!
The real story and not rampant speculation by people who don't actually know.
Yeah this was reported by Racing News 365 last week.
Didn’t think Alpine could look any more stupid. They managed it
Funny how every team that has Alonso in it becomes a mess in one way or another.
Oscars F2, Alpine paid €500,000 balance was paid by his backers. Think 3 million Euro..
Yup,, Alpine vastly overstated how much they supported Piastri's junior career.
maaan Alpine really botched this thru out
What a load of expensive bollocks!
And why should Horner and Wolf have put their tuppence in? It had nothing to do with them and they probably didn't know the full story!
Good on Mark and Oscar! Too bad fit alpine!
this goes to show how all the keyboard warriors know next to nothing, but claim to based on "hot takes" from rumors. This makes a lot of difference for Piastri, Alpine, McLaren and even Ricciardo to a certain extent. People should really keep their mouth's shut until the actual facts come out
Well that is true for Toto and Horner too. Neither knew what this case was but still added their words which hold weight in F1.
This isn't new either. Racing 365 reported this last week.
This guy didn't want to be nick debris or how ever you spell his name....guy waiting for merc for years
Mclaren lackies wrote this.
May a rain of DNFs and 20th places grace upon this specimen. Amen.
How'd that work out for you???
Autosport ≠McLaren PR team
Nothing new here. You just regurgitated old news.
And? A lot of people still haven't heard it.
I hope journalists challenge Toto and Horners on this cases when both were talking about it from an uninformed position. Their words hold weight in the F1 world and joining in on false information and slander of a young driver is unacceptable. There needs to be a walk back of words at the minimum.
The blame here is for Mclaren...Dumped and stabbed Riciardo at his back. If they didn't look for another driver to replace Riciardo, it wouldn't led to this.
The same Ricciardo who dumped two teams in a row?
How is McLaren to blame for Alpine constantly dragging their feet?
Riccardo could also maybe suck less in races than he is now.
Good explanation, doesnt make what Oscar did was right. Alpine at fault for letting the contract situation drags on but Oscar should know better as he's embedded in the team thus well aware of the predicaments that the team is facing.
So you expect a person making a million to care about the predicaments of a company making billions. Hahahaha. You must be dense
Iconically he would have a 2023 race seat now with a slightly better team
Did you miss the part when Alpine dragged their feet and never got him a contract that promised anything close to an F1 drive? What, he needs to live in indentured servitude to Alpine forever? Lol, get real
If I had asked an employer for a contract in November and they still hadn't given it to me in June, I'd have found a different job too...
@@sukispicer686 what if the employer was 4th in F1 championship
Impatient driver want to race asap then forget the value of loyalty weight. Renault has been supporting in his whole racing career. See what other F2 champion did (Russell), wait for his chances to pay back to the team by driving for them few years or wait for them few years are fair for both side. Do people need a contract for being faithful? Willing to committed to Mclaren subject to vacancy but not committed to his former Alpine team for same subject.
Alpine didn't offer him a seat until Alonso left them. It was their own fault. He kept asking for the contract but their legal department still didn't send it months after.
Alpine deserved what they got.
The Renault junior program has always been a joke, this is just a continuation of that.
Considering they produced Piastri, I would say it wasn't. This screwup is by the legal department.
This story has had way too much air time, nobody gives a shit.
I think a lot of people give a shit. Piastris name was dragged last week so he deserves that treatment to be fixed if you dont care dont comment
lol a lot of people do.