Fernando Alonso to Aston Martin: Fascinating clauses - and colossal money - involved in switch from Alpine
The former two-time world champion, now aged 41, caused shockwaves throughout F1 the morning after the Hungarian Grand Prix by confirming that he would leave Alpine to ꦜjoin Aston Martin.
The contract🐲 was officially described as “multi-ye🧜ar” - but now new information has arisen.
that Alonso’s deal wit🍎h Asto✃n Martin is worth an estimated £17.8m (€20m) per year.
And it contains an escape route after each season.𝄹 They describe it as “one plus one plus one that can be e🦂xtended”.
That would allow both the driver and 😼the team to reassess after each season.
AS also reports that Alpine were willing to give Alonso a two-year deal - this ♐contrad﷽icts the widely debated theory that a major sticking point for the driver was that his team would only commit to one year.
Sportune.fr, a Fre🐟nch sports business outlet, report that Alpine wanted Alonso to accept a salary reduction and a one-year deal, to allow ✨Oscar Piastri to replace him in 2024.
How Alonso to Aston Martin came together
Sebastian Vettel told Aston Martin owner Lawrence Stroll last Wednesday night that he had decided to retire at the end of the 2022 sea🌄sꦿon, rather thaౠn pen a new one-year deal, according to AS.
The team always knew that Vettel was consi🌳dering walking away.
Mick Schumacher and Nyck De Vries were never considered as replacements. Daniel Ricciardo was a possibility and has since beeꦆn linked with a return to Alpine by French media.
Alonso had been in tentative🔯 contact with Aston Martin, before Vettel’s reti🅠rement was confirmed, but from last Thursday morning the negotiations ramped up.
“Probably I prefer to stay,” Alonso told med🐼ia about Alpine.
But🐽 a deal with Aston Martꦯin was reached “very quickly,” AS report.
The𓂃re are no ambassadorial conn📖ections to the contract, the Spanish outlet say.
The announcement﷽ was so swift that even Alpine were caught off-guard.
Alonso will earn an estimated £17.8m (€20m) each s💮eason with Aston Martin. That figure is estimated to be €24m by Sportune.fr.
Marca report that his current salary with Alpine is approximately £15m (€17.9m) which reportedly makes him168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: the fourth 𝐆highest earn💝er of the 2022 season behinܫd Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and Lando Norris.
