Why does nobody want to drive for Alpine in F1?
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
With Fernando Alonso signing for Aston Martin and Oscar Piastri headed to McLaren, we ask why two drivers have turned their back on Alpine. Mark Hughes and Claire Cottingham join Edd Straw to delve into that, as well as Alonso's Aston Martin prospects, who needs to do better after the August break and whether F1 has a 'fan' behaviour problem.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | The race is on, and with F1's summer shutdown kicking in, |
| 0:13.4 | it's the ideal time to discuss the implications of the driver market shenanigans |
| 0:16.5 | and ask who needs to do better in the second half of the year. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm Ed Straw, and joining me to |
| 0:21.1 | talk all things F1 are Mark Hughes and Claire Cottingham. Mark, how are you? How's the summer |
| 0:26.3 | break treating you? Very well so far, yes. I'm in northwest Spain on my way to Portugal, |
| 0:33.9 | on the road, driving. Hopefully not podcasting and driving simultaneously. No, that would be ridiculous. Worthy challenge. And also, hello Claire Cottingham from racefans.net. Standing in for Scott Mitchell, feeling up to that particular challenge? What a question. I don't know if I've got enough words to fill in for Scott Mitchell, but I'm hoping to do an OK job. That's where I'm, that's where I'm |
| 0:55.3 | aiming. You should aim higher. We should aim higher, Clint. Well, you're in for quality over |
| 1:00.7 | quantity in terms of a Scott standard. So that's all right. We have high expectations. |
| 1:05.7 | But amazingly, even though Formula One is in hiatus, there's plenty going on and hoping nothing changes in the driver market in the moments between us recording this and releasing it. |
| 1:16.8 | We do need to talk a little bit about what's going on with Alpine, Mark. |
| 1:20.1 | We've covered the intrigue surrounding Oscar Piastri's unwillingness to take that Alpine seats and what's going on there in other podcasts. |
| 1:26.9 | But one aspect we haven't |
| 1:28.2 | really touched on is that he's one of two drivers, the other being Fernando Alonso, who have basically |
| 1:33.0 | walked away from Alpine. It's best of the rest in 2022, doing all right. Is that a pretty |
| 1:38.2 | bad reflection of its potential given two drivers are so keen to walk away from it for teams |
| 1:43.3 | that are ranked lower. |
| 1:44.9 | I honestly think it isn't a reflection of anything bad that's happening at Alpine. |
| 1:49.5 | Rather, I think Lauren Rossi, the boss at Alpine, is simply being caught out by Alonso's |
| 1:55.3 | willingness to take the nuclear option in response to Rossi, not giving him the duration |
| 1:59.6 | of contract he sought. And because that negotiation |
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