Oscar Piastri

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.”

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."

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.”

Alpine responded by making what many believed was an obvious decision: confirming reserve driver Oscar Piastri as their second driver for 2023. However, as ...

Plus, there have been several other instances of drivers making public statements for no other reason than to quiet down the speculation about their futures. Given that the option exists, this is truly a case of “never say never”. He put it bluntly that he will not be driving for Alpine in 2023.

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.

But his Formula One experience is limited to tests of F1 cars, most of which has been paid for by Alpine. The French manufacturer recently laid out a 5,000km testing programme, which is ongoing. Oscar Piastri is considered the ...

However, as the events of this week have shown, with Alpine losing Fernando Alonso to Aston Martin and potentially losing Piastri to McLaren, there are questions about how well run the French team is and whether it will ever be more than a glorified midfield outfit. Most drivers would have felt disrespected and some would have made their feelings known in the media but Ricciardo has been remarkably professional in the face of Brown's manoeuvring. A relative unknown outside of motor racing like Piastri would not fill this gap that would be left by Ricciardo, who is one of the most unique personalities the sport has had in it for a long time. Replacing Ricciardo with another driver isn't going to change that, especially one who is likely going to come with the growing pains associated with any rookie driver in F1. Brown has been lucky that there have not been harsher questions asked about why, under his leadership, McLaren seems incapable of putting together a winning F1 race operation. Multiple sources have told ESPN that Piastri has signed an agreement with McLaren. Although the exact terms of that deal are unclear currently, it is believed Brown is determined to get him into the team's race car. McLaren CEO Zak Brown now appears to be playing a game of chicken with his superstar driver, waiting for him to walk away from his contract so he doesn't have to pay a heavy penalty for tearing it up before it expires at the end of 2023.

Australian driver Oscar Piastri has dropped a bombshell that he will not race for Alpine in Formula One next season, just one hour after the team said he ...

On Monday, Alonso blindsided Alpine by signing a multiyear deal to replace the retiring Sebastian Vettel at Aston Martin, despite telling the team in the build-up to and in the hours after the Hungarian Grand Prix that he intended to sign a contract extension with the team for 2023 which included an option for 2024. "This is wrong and I have not signed a contract with Alpine for 2023. Australian driver Oscar Piastri dropped a bombshell that he will not race for Alpine in Formula One next season, just over an hour after the team said he would replace Aston Martin-bound Fernando Alonso.

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.

Alexander Albon celebrated his new multi-year deal to continue driving for Williams by winning the internet as he mocked Alpine's driver dispute with Oscar ...

I will be driving for Williams next year." "I understand that, with my agreement, Williams Racing have put out a press release this afternoon that I am driving for them next year," he said. I will not be driving for Alpine next year."

“I understand that, with my agreement, Williams Racing have put out a press release this afternoon that I am driving for them next year,” Albon cheekily wrote ...

He has been linked with a switch to McLaren ahead of the 2023 season as a replacement for Daniel Ricciardo. The 21-year-old wrote: “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. and I look forward to seeing what we can achieve as a team in the remainder of this season and next year. Thai-British driver Albon has secured three points for Williams this season and sits 19th in the F1 world drivers' championship leaderboard. Mercedes ace George Russell has congratulated Alex Albon for earning a new Formula One deal and reacted after the Williams driver referenced Oscar Piastri’s Alpine contract debacle in his announcement. And Williams star Albon amusingly mocked the situation when announcing that his own contract had been extended into next season.

F driver Alex Albon had some fun with the announcement that he signed a contract with Williams Racing and will be behind the wheel for the team in 2023.

However, Nate Saunders of ESPN reported the 21-year-old signed a pre-contract deal with McLaren, which just so happens to be battling Alpine for fourth place in this year's constructors' championship. This is wrong and I have not signed a contract with Alpine for 2023. However, Piastri responded with the following message: "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.