Szafnauer: Alpine would close 'Piastri loopholes' in future driver deals
Alpine would look to prevent ' loopholes ', like the one found in Oscar Piastri 's Alpine agreement, from occurring again in future drive r contracts.
After the announcement in July that Sebastian Vettel would be retiring at the end of the season, Fernando Alonso elected to transfer from Alpine and sign for Aston Martin to replace his fellow World Champion.
This opened up a seat alongside Esteban Ocon, with Alpine planning to promote reserve driver Piastri to make his Grand Prix debut in 2023.
However, as the team had not offered him a concrete race drive with them, the 2021 Formula 2 champion looked elsewhere and signed with McLaren, publicly rejecting Alpine's promotion on social media. Szafnauer: We should have done things differently As TheFOXposts.Com would later exclusively reveal in the Contract Recognition Board's ruling, failures on Alpine's side meant P...