For the first time since the Oscar Piastri saga unfolded, Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi speaks to the media to give his side of the story. Here's why he is 'extremely disappointed' despite not locking Piastri into a water-tight F1 contract
While the recent CRB ruling suggested Piastri only elected to go down the McLaren route because of delays Alpine had in giving him a contract, Rossi thinks that the court painted a different picture of what was going on behind the scenes.
“We put contracts in front of him many times. He never signed it. So you cannot say that he never had it. He had the contracts. He just didn't sign it. So it's a catch-22. You can always say the contract never came, but you had it.” “When you start then pointing at other things to distract people, and use the ‘I didn't feel the love...’
Looking back at things now, Rossi thinks that Alpine lost Piastri for one simple reason: McLaren had a bigger money offer on the table and that was the key motivating factor behind all that happened. “And I would even contend ours is better, because we are a works team and he's been trained, he knows everyone in the team.”“Someone shopped around, got a better deal, and decided to take it. So don't beat around the bush and try and find convenient excuses for why this happened. We know what happened.
“It says a lot when Toto [Wolff] himself says we're going to look into our contracts very differently,” added Rossi. “We'll do as well, obviously. We were the ones who got the burn for everyone else.
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