After the Spaniard’s permanent change, a cockpit at the racing team was free for 2023. Now it is clear who will sit there next season.
The chair back in the award of the Formula 1 cockpits 2023 continues. As expected, the French racing team Alpine is promoting the Australian top talent Oscar Piastri to succeed Fernando Alonso in the coming season. Piastri (21), previously Alpine’s reserve driver, will flank Frenchman Esteban Ocon (25) “from 2023”, the team said.
The move from two-time world champion Alonso to Aston Martin was only announced on Monday. The 41-year-old Spaniard will inherit four-time champion Sebastian Vettel (35/Heppenheim) from the British team next year, who will retire at the end of the season.
Piastri is considered to be a very talented driver, and other racing teams also had their eye on the Australian. In 2020 he triumphed in Formula 3, the following year he secured the title in Formula 2 – a double blow that only Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) and George Russell (Mercedes), who are now among the stars in the premier class, had previously succeeded in doing.