Alpine boss Laurent Rossi says the French outfit is still on course with its 100-race plan to join the fight at the front in F1 despite the team's rocky summer away from the track. Rossi laid out Alpine's ambitions at the start of 2021 and the team ramped up its level of performance this season, positioning itself as 'best of the rest' as it fights McLaren for P4 in the Constructors' standings. But in early August, the Enstone squad was disrupted by the bombshell news of Fernando Alonso's transfer to Aston Martin. Alpine subsequently promoted highly-rated reserve driver Oscar Piastri to a race seat for 2023, only for the Aussie to snub the offer and reveal that he had signed for McLaren!...
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