Brown: Szafnauer looks "a little silly" after Piastri F1 contract comments

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Brown: Szafnauer looks "a little silly" after Piastri F1 contract comments
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McLaren boss Brown reckons his team was right to stay quiet on the whole Piastri F1 contract saga, saying Alpine's Szafnauer now looks 'a little silly.'

next year after F1's Contract Recognition Board ruled Alpine's claim it had an agreement in place with the Australian for next year was not correct.team boss Szafnauer said at Spa he was"very" confident Alpine would win the case, as well as questioning Piastri's integrity given all of Alpine's support for him.

"Now that ruling has come out and some of the detail, I think it's clear what happened there. So we recognised there was a lot of noise, but we knew the truth would come out eventually and we could ride it out, as opposed to giving a running commentary. Palou announced on Wednesday he would be staying at Ganassi for 2023, but has an F1 testing agreement in place with McLaren.

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