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So Piastri is now officially announced at McLaren and was ratified by the CCB...
Rumors of Gasly at Alpine are strong - it's only $. And he and Ocon hate one another.

The interesting thing to me is how the contract board said his contract with the papayas was dated early July so way before anyone thought about the Fernando situation (conspiracy theories go poof). What's crazy is that Alpine then clearly a) could have acquiesced to Fernando's demands has they been told and b) must have had a serious hole in their contract with piastri for the judgment to be unanimous and the exit valid that early. Wish we knew why, seems bonkers on their part.

I have to say I don't know Piastri at all, but backstabbing the team that invested so much in him like that to go to a competitor that is slower right now ? and if you had done this in July, why not let the team know not to string Alonso along? I think he generated quite a bit of bad Karma outside of McLaren (Wolf and Horner commented it was a lack of loyalty), and he is now gonna be under a hell of a lot of pressure to deliver. All this attention, he better be the second coming of Senna -and I firmly believe Ricciardo was not that bad these 2 years and that Norris is actually a super driver, so he will have his hands full next year. I now really hope Alpine beats McLaren next year, and Norris trounces him. Just for good manners ;-) That is all.