Oscar Piastri

Alpine says it has signed Oscar Piastri to replace Fernando Alonso at its Formula 1 team next year.

The nature of the Alpine release - which includes wording relating to deals already in place - could be viewed as an attempt by the team to make public that it has a contractual call over Piastri for 2023. We're well over half that programme of 5000 kilometres, which isn't insignificant, in last year's car, in preparation for a race next year. Through our collaboration over the past four years, we have seen him develop and mature into a driver who is more than capable of taking the step up to Formula 1. "What I do know is that he does have contractual obligations to us," he added. “Also FP1s, simulation work, and we've been performing those obligations on both sides. “We are proud to have nurtured and supported him through the difficult pathways of the junior formulae.

The team had an unexpected open seat for 2023 after Aston Martin confirmed Fernando Alonso would compete for them next season.

“Through our collaboration over the past four years, we have seen him develop and mature into a driver who is more than capable of taking the step up to Formula 1. “Oscar is a bright and rare talent,” Szafnauer said in the official announcement. I will not be driving for Alpine next year.”

Earlier the statement from Alpine said: "BWT Alpine F1 Team confirms 21-year-old reserve driver Oscar Piastri as Esteban Ocon's teammate starting from 2023. In ...

Earlier the statement from Alpine said: "BWT Alpine F1 Team confirms 21-year-old reserve driver Oscar Piastri as Esteban Ocon’s teammate starting from 2023. While Team Principal Otmar Szafnauer added: “Oscar is a bright and rare talent. Oscar Piastri insists ‘I will not be driving for Alpine next year’ after team announce him as Alonso’s replacement

How the silly season politics of Aston Martin, Alpine, and McLaren explain why a new era is arriving for race driver contracts.

By all accounts Palou did have a contract with Ganassi, though one that fell below his current market value as a champion, and the team had tried to give him a better contract to keep him on and keep him happy. Over in North America’s Indycar series, the Chip Ganassi team announced that they had renewed their contract defending champion Alex Palou, only for Palou to post hours later that Ganassi had fabricated quotes from him and that he had not signed a new contract with the team and would be racing elsewhere next year. More seriously for the business of racing, this is the second time in a month that a driver has appeared to tear up an agreement right as a team tries to force their hand with a splashy public announcement. As a driver who came up through their development system, Alpine have been looking for ways to keep him tied to the team while expecting that they would be running Alonso and his teammate Esteban Ocon for the foreseeable future. He returned to F1 after just two years of retirement in 2021 to join Alpine, which was presented as a kind of homecoming, although the Renault team of his youth was a thing of the past and has been there for two years, at a team that is not terrible but also seems unable to close the distance between itself and the frontrunners. If you are more skeptical of the man, you could also say his run of bad luck seems improbable and that he might have a causal relationship to the fact that he has often arrived at teams just as they enter a period of steep decline.

Oscar Piastri has denied he will drive for Alpine next season after the Formula One team announced he would replace the departing Fernando Alonso.

Piastri is an enormous talent and has been part of the Alpine driver academy since 2020. Right up until the Sunday of the Hungarian Grand Prix Alonso had assured them he was close to agreeing a new deal. The Alpine Formula One team have entered a very public dispute with Oscar Piastri, their prospective replacement for Fernando Alonso next season.

Oscar Piastri has refuted Alpine's claim that they have signed him for Formula 1 2023 and insists - in a dramatic twist to the sport's transfer 'silly ...

"Where is he going to be driving? We are all sitting on the fence." "He is going to be a credit to the sport whatever car he is in because his on-track driving does the talking and he is going to be an asset to the Formula 1 paddock and driver market, it is just where he is going to be placed now. "Yeah it is very odd. If Ricciardo did lose his seat, he could make an unexpected return to the Renault family. "Now, that statement that he has put out, I find it very surprising that he is rejecting a team that is in the top four and a great upward trajectory, that you wouldn't want to drive for them."

When Fernando Alonso announced on Monday his departure from Alpine at the end of the 2022 Formula One season, the consensus was the team would quickly ...

This is wrong and I have not signed a contract with Alpine for 2023. This success has made Piastri a hot commodity with several teams interested in signing the 21-year-old. I understand that, without my agreement, Alpine F1 have put out a press release late this afternoon that I am driving for them next year.

Oscar Piastri said he won't be driving for Alpine next season despite the team's announcement that he would be promoted to replace Fernando Alonso.

This is wrong and I have not signed a contract with Alpine for 2023. “I understand that, without my agreement, Alpine F1 have put out a release late this afternoon that I am driving for them next year. I understand that, without my agreement, Alpine F1 have put out a press release late this afternoon that I am driving for them next year.

Alpine announced on Tuesday that Oscar Piastri would make his F1 debut with the team for 2023, only for the Australian to respond saying that would not be ...

What is certain is that Alpine have announced Piastri will drive for them in 2023 – and he says he won’t. We now await their respective next steps... The Australian, it is believed, has an option elsewhere on the grid and is keener to take that up, rather than join Alpine. However, they did so without a quote form Piastri. This is not the done thing with driver announcements. They wanted to give last season’s F2 champion Piastri a year elsewhere on the grid in 2023, before drafting him in for 2024. They were hopeful the Spaniard would stay on for a third season but they were not prepared to offer him a straight two-year deal. This left Alpine with an empty seat alongside Esteban Ocon, who is contracted until the end of 2024, for next season.

I will not be driving for Alpine next year," said 21-year-old Oscar Piastri, the reigning Formula 2 champion whose stunning declaration shook up the top ...

We wouldn’t have done that, if the view was to get him prepared for one of our competitors.” Ricciardo is familiar with the team, having raced for Renault in 2019 and 2020. We are proud to have nurtured and supported him through the difficult pathways of the junior formulae. Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer then acknowledged that he had been in talks with Alonso to retain the veteran driver and was not aware of his defection until Szafnauer saw Aston Martin’s news release. This is wrong and I have not signed a contract with Alpine for 2023. I will not be driving for Alpine next year.”

The Alpine Formula 1 team is adamant that its contract with Oscar Piastri for 2023 is legally watertight, despite the Australian insisting he will not drive ...

It is understood that his comments come in the wake of a push that Piastri and his management have made to secure a seat at McLaren for next year. The body made up of independent lawyers will then read through the terms of the contracts that Piastri has and determine who has rights to him for next year. However, a few hours after Alpine’s announcement, Piastri took to social media to insist that he had not signed anything with the team and would not be racing for it in 2023.