When everything seemed to indicate that Alpine was going to have to give up its star of the future to a friendly team so that he could debut in Formula 1, everything has taken a 180º turn and finally Oscar Piastri will debut with them.
The bombshell of the year (and probably the most important news in the final stage of Fernando Alonso’s career in Formula 1) has made the Silly Season: At 41 years old, and on his first day of vacation, the #14 has announced that at the end of this season he will leave Alpine for the green Aston Martin.
This unexpected news leaves, consequently, a hole in alpine who will undoubtedly have many suitors. While everything seemed on track for the two-time Spanish champion to continue for at least one more year with the French team to strengthen the foundations established in the first year of the new generation of single-seaters, with the reserve driver Oscar Piastri calling on another team on loan to start letting off steam, everything has blown up.
Piastri was proclaimed champion of F3 and F2 in his first year in the category
Williams seemed the most propitious candidate for the young Australian driver, recently proclaimed Formula 2 champion, to display his talent initially with the intention of continuing to do so in the team. Enstone when the Spanish decided to leave, but everything has turned around.
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The rise of Piastri, to his 21 yearshas been unquestionable: after winning the Formula Renault title in 2019, in 2020, his first year in Formula 3, he went straight to winning the championship, just as he did last year with the Formula 3 competition. 2 ahead of drivers like Robert Shwartzman or the recently incorporated into Formula 1, Guanyu Zhou.
Thus the things, the pyramid of promotion to the premier category of motorsports has proven its effectiveness with a driver whose talent resonated throughout the paddock and that everyone regretted that he was left without a seat in Formula 1 despite this. It is true that Alonso’s departure from the team is a highly unusual move, but the consequence has not been long in coming.
Alpine’s praise for its promising pilot, especially those of a Otmar Szafnauer that he did not hesitate to put him above Alonso in the statements he made to the press until all this changed with the occasion of the Spaniard’s birthday in Hungary, show how delighted they are to have fresh blood in the team.
The objective of the French team was to try to aspire to everything with the great change in the regulations, something that they have definitely not achieved despite having taken a step forward if the A522 doesn’t breakso, hand in hand with Piastri and Ocon, they will seek to establish themselves at the top of the table.