Alonso contract talks delayed until after summer break

Fernando Alonso confirmed he has not yet started negotiations with Alpine over a new contract, wanting to see out the busy July schedule before doing so.

Team principal Otmar Szafnauer previously stated that a decision over Alonso’s future would begin to take shape from the British Grand Prix weekend onwards, but with four races in five weekends to navigate, he and Alonso have decided to delay their conversations until the current run of races ends.

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Alonso has spoken on multiple occasions about his desire to stay in Formula 1 beyond the end of the year, but has the looming figure of Formula 2 champion Oscar Piastri waiting in the wings, should Alpine decide to go in another direction.

“So far we have not started any negotiations,” Alonso said after qualifying at Silverstone, per the French edition of Motorsport.com.

“My objective, as I have said sometimes, is to continue, but until the summer break I want to focus: this July we have four races, and I need to score points because I was a bit unlucky in the first nine.”

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Szafnauer agreed with Alonso’s plans to talk later about his future, as there is more time than in previous years for Alpine to choose their driver line-up with the expansion of the Formula 1 calendar in recent years.

“After the summer we should have a conversation and make a decision,”