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Oscar Piastri says Alpine-McLaren F1 drama ‘bizarre and frankly upsetting’

theguardian.com

McLaren’s new Australian signing, Oscar Piastri, has opened up on how upset he was to be falsely announced as a driver for Alpine amid the legal wrangle between the two teams.

And the 21-year-old has acknowledged it was “unfortunate” that the driver he’s replaced at McLaren should happen to be one of his heroes, fellow Australian Daniel Ricciardo.

In an interview with the official F1 site, Piastri, unveiled by McLaren as Ricciardo’s 2023 replacement on Friday, also revealed a “bizarre and frankly upsetting episode” involving Alpine team principal Otmar Sfaznauer.

Piastri said he had been in the simulator when Sfaznauer told him he was going to be announced as an Alpine driver from the 2023 season.

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