Mark Webber, manager of Oscar Piastri, has come out against Otmar Szafnauer’s statements in which, according to the Australian, the Alpine boss has inflated the team’s investment figures in his client’s career.
Mark Webber can boast of having achieved a total of nine victories in Formula 1 throughout his sporting career, in addition to eight victories in the WEC. Endurance World Champion in 2015 with Porsche, the former Australian driver is still closely linked to the ‘Great Circus’ as manager of Oscar Piastridriver already confirmed by McLaren for next season.
Like is logic, Webber has had a key role in the arrival of Oscar Piastri to the McLaren team, prior ruling of the Contract Recognition Board (CRB). A process in which Piastri has received great criticism, but in which Mark Webber has always been calm, aware of being right as it has been ruled.
«More than 80% of the budget was provided by external sponsors and Oscar’s own family»
With the ‘Piastri case’ solved, Webber has wanted to come out against certain insinuations and has responded to the statements of Otmar Szafnauer, Alpine team manager. The Australian has not fitted well the words of Szafnauer in which accused Oscar Piastri of a certain lack of integrity after taking advantage of Alpine’s platform and budget to progress in motorsport.
In this sense, Mark Webber has questioned Sazfnauer’s comments in statements collected by the microphones of ‘Channel 4’, assuring that the statements of the head of Alpine do not make much sense since the figures that are being handled have exploded out of all proportion
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Pending accounts, never better said
In this sense, Oscar Piastri’s manager has been categorical: «The numbers on Piastri have been inflated out of proportion. It seems that the summer holidays have given people the opportunity to throw away millions and millions and millions. certainly not that».
Mark Webber is very clear about the real accounts because «in the training categories Oscar has obtained prize money for winning those championships, outside of Alpine’s investment. More than 80% of the budget was provided by external sponsors and Oscar’s own family for his training. It is important have some context».
The end of the Piastri-Alpine link
Webber has also referred to the possible immediate separation of Oscar Piastri from Alpine after the resolution of the CRB and his signing by McLaren: «Next week there will be a meeting, It’s all there. Everything has been there for a while and everyone knew it was happening. they knew itThat is absolutely clear.”
Appreciating the role of his driver, Mark adds that “he has been working hard for the team, trying to contribute to Alpine as much as he can in terms of performance and in the simulator. He is an absolute professional and will do what he has to do, depends on alpine how they want to deal with the situation He has a contract until the end of 2022. It’s up to them what to do.”
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