F1 2022 thread - see post 1 for rules

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.

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.

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...

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 silly season get sillier! Love it

Thats a fantastic twist

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.

That has to be a massive clustertruck for Alpine.

This is mindblowing but still funny as hell.

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.

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

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.

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.

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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.