New regulations new season....
Can redbull keep up the pace
Apparently Mick is not re signing for FDA this year. So where does that leave him?
Along with Marko Asking if Perez is already on holidays and recently talking up Mick.
Maybe Porsche would like a German driver?
It was only a few races ago that a lot of people didn't seem to think Mick deserved a seat in F1 at all. To go from that to being linked with the best seat on the grid seems a bit far fetched to say the least.
Definitely don't think Mick Sch will be picked up by better seat this year. HAAS is where he will probably still be next year. Unless their ambitions change. Maybe the upgrade parts will suit the remaining tracks . Last year was really a training wheel year. This is more of a rookie year as the car has some performance and he can actually challenge for stuff.
Piastri's signing apparently not all the straightforward:
Say what you will about the on-track performance, but Aston Martin are making Alpine look very poor from an organisational point of view...
Who is FDA. You mean Haad.
A pity piastri has signed for Alpine.
I have no problem with Piastri in F1 and am happy for him just think him starting at William's or in Mclaren might have been better.
I would have liked to see Ricciardo back there.
Someone said earlier that if Ricciardo had of stayed at Alpine he might not have got a win last year but I disagree. Ocon got a win in the Alpine last year. That could have been Ricciardo.
This is why F1 is just brilliant. Piastri not happy. F1 and Alpine social media with egg on their faces. Silly season in full swing. 😂
The hell
The silly season get sillier! Love it
Seems to be setting up for Piastri to McLaren and Ricciardo to Alpine perhaps? Alpine look like a right shower of clowns though...
Thats a fantastic twist
FDA = Ferrari Driver Academy...
Nobody is looking good coming out of this. Alonso suddenly signing for Aston without informing Alpine who thought finalising the contract was a formality. Alpine announcing Piastri seemingly without informing him. Piastri apparently signing contradicting contracts with multiple teams and airing dirty laundry in public. Not a great way to start your F1 career.
It's nice of Alpine to take the heat off Ferrari after Sundays race
That has to be a massive clustertruck for Alpine.
Alonso looks like a dick, but sort of on brand anyway. Alpine look inept.
This is mindblowing but still funny as hell.
That's a clanger and a half from Apline. Surely Piastri goes to McLaren and Ricciardo back to Alpine now?
That last line is fairly definitive.
He would want to have something else lined up or it could backfire massively for him.
ATM Alpine look like a right shower of clowns.
Its only day 2 of the summer break (ish.. technically it starts next week for the teams) and we already have the silly season going mental!
Are things that bad at Alpine, that Alonso is willing to move to a worse car, and their star young driver doesn't want to race there either?
The last line of Piastri tweet pretty much closes the door on Alpine by the sounds of it. Not just for next year, but permanently
Wow, that's mad! Could you imagine if Twitter and Social media were around when all of the Schumacher stuff was happening with Bernie/Jordan/Benetton 😂
I hope so.
Lol what a silly mistake by Piastri. He could yet end up in the Williams and regret posting that post.
It was stupid of Alpine to say they had signed him without talking to him but I am guessing there was a lack of comunication somewhere online the line. Someone said they did or would contact him and did had not yet done so.
We could yet see Alonso decide to go back to Mclaren for a 3rd stint there if Ricciardo dies go to Alpine.
I think Piastri should have let Alpine clear up the mess before he tweeted. Looks like Piastri to Mclaren is on the cards so. He has another year on his contract but could Alpine go in for Gasly, they'd probably love to have two French drivers. If Marko is a fan of Schumacher could he end up going to Alpha Tauri then opening a seat for Danny Ric at Haas. If Latifi does leave Williams then that seat seat would surely go to Nick De Vries. The summer break is turning like the football transfer rumours
My understanding is that alpine have piastri on contract and had an option to put him in the race seat for 2023 so contractually, it was their decision only.
This can only blow up in his face. A rookie turning down a full works team who have him on contract for a long while is crazy stuff.
If he has no seat next year, he will be a sorry boy.
Ferrari strategists seem to have become the Alpine HR department since Sunday
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Just catching up on all the news now, this is great fun. Isn't Piastri's manager Mark Webber? Hopefully they have something in the works to be confident sending out a tweet like that. If he's as talented as some folks say, then he'll be contracted by some team, doubt it'll backfire on him too badly. Hopefully anyway as I'd like to see what he's capable of in an F1 car.
Alonso doing the dirty on his current team again I see. No wonder that chap only has 2 titles - had the talent for twice that many but awful decision making on his part.
RE Alonso; We're all experts now but at the time of signing, his decision making seemed wise. Who thought joining Ferrari in 2010 was going to be a bad idea? Ferrari let him down there over the five seasons together, not the other way around. And re-joining McLaren with Ron Dennis back at the helm and Honda coming back to exclusively power them sounded like a fairly good long term plan. But Honda just took too long to get their act together.
That's a bit Harsh. Had Mclaren fully supported Alonso in 2007 and Ferrari when he was with them he would at least be a 5 time WDC driver.
