McLaren and Alpine are set to do battle over the services of the French team’s reserve driver Oscar Piastri following the young Australian’s reluctance to join the Enstone-based team next season. Sebastian Vettel announced his retirement from Formula 1 at the end of 2022 last week, opening the door to his Aston Martin drive, but his replacement was not who everyone expected. On Monday morning, after the Hungarian Grand Prix, the British side issued a press release confirming that Fernando Alonso had signed with them for next season. Not only was this to many fans’ surprise, but it caught Alpine out too after their team boss, Otmar Szafnauer, revealed that the Spaniard had told him in...
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