Oscar Piastri’s confusing transfer saga has received its fair share of sloppiness on social media.
Oscar Piastri does not drive Alpine. PDO
F1 promise Oscar Piastri the confusing transfer saga will not subside. According to ESPN Piastri would have signed a preliminary contract with McLaren.
The deal started on Tuesday, when the F1 team Alpine announced on Twitter that Piastri would be moving to Aston Martin Fernando Alonso place next season.
Piastri, who was part of Alpine’s junior program, denied the transfer just an hour later on his own Twitter account.
– I think Alpine has published a press release where they say that I will drive in the team next year. This is wrong. I haven’t signed a contract with Alpine for next season. I won’t drive them next year, Piastri wrote.
Now rumors are taking the reigning champion of the Formula 2 class to Alpine’s rival, McLaren.
However, McLaren has contracts for next season by Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo with. The team has recruited its reserve drivers Colton Hertan, Dam O’Ward’s and Alex Paloun.
The contract of Ricciardo, who performed poorly, is valid until the end of 2023. A clause has been written into the deal, according to which the Australian driver could change teams.
Ricciardo drove for Alpine in 2019 and 2020, when the team was still known as Renault. If the trade comes, there would be room for Piastr in the team.
Rough banter
Who will drive Alpine’s second car next season? EPA/AOP
Piastr’s confusing transfer patterns have set social media jokers in motion. The F1 teams Mercedes, Haas and Alfa Romeo have published pictures in which the drivers are staring intensely at the phone screen.
Alfa Romeo connected Valtteri Bottas and Guanyu Zhou popcorn emoji according to the phone picture.
Former F1 driver Pietro Fittipaldi in turn summed up the mood of many F1 followers.
– This is crazy, he tweeted with a laughing emoji.
Many sports teams also got excited to make fun of Alpine and Piastr.
E-sports team Astralis Rainbow Six and an English football club Taunton Town published Piastr’s contract as a joke.
Perhaps the best offer, however, is the companies throwing themselves into the F1 world.
– Okay, who needs to call us in the morning? an eyeglass shop Specsavers commented To Piastr’s tweet.
– Alpine and Ryanair. Random selection of seats, a low-cost airline that allows seat selection only for an additional fee Ryanair would crash.
At the same time, Fernando Alonso, who started the whole driver’s guide, published videos from his summer vacation in Spain in his Instagram stories.
Alonso said on Monday that he will replace Sebastian Vettel’s At Aston Martin next season. The Spanish driver had previously told Alpine that he intends to sign an extension.
Alpine team manager Otmar Szafnaurer learned about the transfer of his driver from Aston Martin’s press release.
Money wasted
Fernando Alonso cooked quite a soup. PDO
Piastri is the reigning champion of the Formula 2 series. He has been in Alpine’s junior program for four years.
The situation is dire for Alpine. The team lost two-time world champion Alonso and Piastri, considered a future champion candidate, in just a few days.
The stable had invested significant sums of money in Piastr. The young driver has driven more than 5,000 test kilometers with the stable’s cars.