The Alpine/Piastri situation may now be resolved. But despite admitting to its own mistakes in the F1 silly season saga, the team still feels burned by the whole affair. Story:
“It's normal to go back to the team that invested so much in you, especially us.
For rather than it being Alpine guilty of not moving forward with the contract, he suggests that Piastri’s camp was continuously stalling in signing off paperwork “As soon as we found him a seat, we had a contract. We were like: ‘this is going to trump everything else. We don't need anything else. You're going to have your contract. This is it. Let's go.’
Looking back at things now, Rossi thinks that Alpine lost Piastri for one simple reason: McLaren had a bigger money offer on the table and that was the key motivating factor behind all that happened. While Alpine has paid a short-term price in terms of its own driver choices, it feels there are wider consequences for the entire F1 paddock triggered by events.
“The problem it creates is that it makes the market too fluid a place that endangers the stakeholders that invest into it.
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