Ousted Alpine F1 boss Otmar Szafnauer believes the senior management were entirely to blame for losing 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri to McLaren.

Piastri was an🦩nounced as an Alpine driver in the middle of ꦫ2022.

However, shortly after the team announced the news, Piastri tweeted ✨on X categorically that he would not be driving for Alpine in 2023.

A month later, followiওng a✤ review by the Contract Recognition Board to discuss the case, McLaren were given the green light to announce Piastri.

This meant that Alpine had lost Piastri and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso in a matter of weeks.

Speaking on the High Performance podcast, Szafnauer, who was Alpine F1 team principal 🧸at the time, shed light on the situation.

“There was a contract after he finished his F2 career where Alpine had an option on Oscar Piastri as a Formula 1 driver for Alpine, and that contract was neve🥂r executed,” he explained.

“In November, there ಌwas a two-week time window where it could have been done, and it w𒁏asn’t.

“Now my point is, come the CRB where ൩Alpine lost because the filings were incorrectly done, we put out a press release, and the press release has my image on it. So nu♏mber one, nothing to do with me. I wasn’t even there.

“But numb♍er two, the communications depar🌳tment that didn’t report to me thought it was a good idea to deflect the incompetency of those that were Alpine at the time by putting my picture on the release.”

Szafnauer is adamant the whole fiasco showed how “unt🍌rustworthy” Alpine’s top management were and that some people within the organisation were “out to get me”.

“But it just showed at the time that there were some people within the Alpine organisation that were untrustworthy and that w🍃ere out to get me, so they weren’t working wit🐟h me,” he added.

“Although they didn’t sign the contract in time, what was in th✤at contract we delivered to Oscar, and that was not insignificant, it was 5000 kilometres in a two-year-old car that cost you a lot of money – and we did that.

“We absolutely did everything that was meant to be d⛦one by that contract that was never signed. In English law, had we taken it to an English court, maybe we would have won.

“You know, that’s unjust enrichment. ‘You know, you didn’t sign th🍸e contract, but you took all this and you’re not delivering what you’r💙e supposed to deliver.”