Ferrari is checking that this headline isn't about their drivers.

For real lol

The difference is that Ferrari could be dead last in constructor's and would still lure Piastri to the seat. The brand makes them invincible, Alpine is.. well, Alpine

Ferrari of 2022 season: Alpine

Lets make it a things to call fuck ups a "Ferrari" Thats gold😂😂😂😂

Now they have Esteban and Ocon driving for them in the future!!!

It happens to the best of us. Happened to me once when trying to decide between 3 girls. Ended up with none.

@@milol.akkaraprud8681 ah yes esteban gutierez making a comeback

Announce Mazepin to Alpine

Really Ferrari'd it up

Haha I was looking for this one

Like they did with the submarine crisis

Yeah… naur

@@adriencp9791 oof, this hurts.

He's Australian? Letz goo

Its not what happened. Alpine had an option to sign Piastri which i believe expired same day as Alonso announced AM deal. Its likely they simply forgot to exercise that option in time to lock him in but were unaware of it. Either way looks terrible.

piastri said that cuz he signed already with other team

The UFC uses these tactics on a regular to get their fighters to fight certain people. It's pretty fucked and shady. Really did not expect to see this in F1

@@Ravakeksis Piastri must join Haas.

@@PozzaPizz Pozza Pizz i think this driver transfer gonna last very long....

Alsonso's thumbs up is just hilarious and also a bit menacing I mean he just jumped ship from the same team. Makes you think about the reasons why he would leave and if piastris are similar

@@hypernovamkvi715 yeah, have to wonder what’s going on in there. Like why is Alonso so happy to go full scorched earth on Alpine, when it was with Renault/Alpine that he saw the most success? Must be something wrong, even above Otmar (since this problem pre-dates him)

sounds ominous.

@@hypernovamkvi715 u sure that wasnt just a coincidence lol? He seems to post on his story quite often

@@adityanair5613 the fact it was so soon after means probably coincidence. I doubt Alonso has tweet notifications on for Piastri

Ikr. I even saw a lower level football team announce that they were welcoming piastri into their squad

NASCAR drivers did too lol

Yeah, my grandma also said they can't count on her..

Didn't see that. But I did saw Rosenqvist say: Had to look if it was not April 1st. And That O'Ward and Grosjean responded with Popcorn emoji's to it.

@@podlumpy3838 Wohooo, with that rate my turn will come :D

He also didn't even inform them that he was bailing. They found out via AM announcement. I think ocons moves last weekend and alpine backing him has pushed them both away

@@danieljay8009 I don't think Alonso made the decision THAT quickly

@@Septimus_ii no, but it probaly was the last straw. Especially since Alonso helped Ocon and Alpine with their 1st win on the same track previous year and this is how they treat him? I can't blame him for leaving.

I think more likely Ocon cottoned on and thus went "sod it, I'm racing him now for my own career prospects"

@@danieljay8009 Other way round surely...Alonso had decided he was leaving and Ocon must have known and also probably been told to be aggressive with him....

Don’t forget the off track action Versatappen v. Hamilton also in Brazil 2022 🤪

Sheeeeeeesh. 😄

@@danilo352 do you see the future?

@@danilo352 Give us a hint

@@danilo352 this is either gonna age like milk or make you look like a prophet

Alpine is trying to steal the show but you jist can't pull a Ferrari masterclass like Ferrari can (Tifosi Pain 🥲)

lol was it not the ferrari who copied renaults "hard tyres" disasterclass last race?

@@gelmir7322 Yeah but Alpine done it better, they responded with hard tyres to their other driver with hard tyres who was trying and struggling, so their inner fight with themselves resulted with both drivers on hards. Luckily for them, Ricciardo is nowhere with McLaren...

Savage

That's the only sensible explanation

Maybe the real El Plan is the chaos we made along the way

Technically Seb got it going

Alonso decided it was time for a little trolling

@@sallybally344 Yes... for some good domino effect.

@@sallybally344 I don't think that Seb was unaware of the talks with Fernando.

Maybe Goatifi?

@@naturelover4148 The Goatifi Strikes Back

Without talking to Mazepin.

Goatifi for Alpine

They'll sign Tom Vialle, or maybe Tom Brady.

Nah, they won’t, you *offered* to drive They’ll pick some random guy from the street outside Endstone

nah you seem too desperate for them

@@formulaendurance and announce it before even talking to him...

@@AKStovall yeah man lol

And I can be the young driver for their driver development program

Are you sure? Can anyone truly be sure that they are not going to be announced as an Alpine F1 driver?

@@BF4NEEDSSTEAM yes

I regret to announce that you will in fact be driving for Alpine. You have no choice. Operatives are being sent to your location as we speak. Resistance is futile. Accept your fate.

Neither am I *steps in the helicopter* Because I don't have IG *growing laughter can be heard as the helicopter takes off*

Don't worry I have already signed the contract with them

You simply don't know that.

@@maximum.p You’re right, I don’t know. But this whole situation supports that suggestion, or else they would’ve already had a confirmed 2023 line up by now.

@@gsixuwlj well maybe they did not want to keep Alonso and just exercise the option on Piastri, which I'm sure they have

@@maximum.p Then why didn’t they confirm Piastri’s future sooner if they never intended to keep Alonso? And why are they publicly admitting they were caught off guard by Alonso’s move? And why do they only have one driver confirmed for 2023 while publicly losing 2 of their own? C’mon now…

@@maximum.p They offered Alonso a 1 + 1 year with Alpine being the ones able to choose if Alonso continued or not (of course Alonso didn't agree with this). They basically wanted to keep him as a seat warmer for Piastri, what they didn't know was that Piastri already had a contract with McLaren.

Ricciardo singing his heart out: "I'm part of the masterplan" Alonso & Vettel in the backing vocals: (I'm part of the mas-ter-plan)

🤣🤣5D chess mate

Love it.

Too much free time if I ever seen it

Its all part of the plan mate

It's almost identical the the tweet of Alex Palou... these words more than likely came from Mclaren's lawyers rather than Oscar himself.

Yeah but I don't think it's only Otmar, don't forget Prost left to earlier this year or end last before Otmar got there

You need to look at riciardo as well. He left extremely soon, for a team that wasn't that much better...

Totally makes sense that Alpine offers Fernando a 1 year deal for whatever sum of money...then Aston offers him a multi-year deal with more money, so Fernando jumps ship. However, this is all timed far too well for it to be merely coincidence. Alpine did something to piss of the most conniving driver, possibly of all time, to make him not only leave so abruptly, but also make sure their star young talent also won't be filling his old seat. There are two things Fernando is brilliant at...and driving is the other one.

@@m73m95 I think Piastri kinda upset with Alpine indecision whether to choose him or Alonso ...They choose Alonso but when vettel retired ,they suddenly jumpship for Oscar...I think 🤔 Alpine are bigger messed up off the circuit problems compare to Ferrari

@@xenonn7275 True but I think Covid may be to blame for that one first season at reneault was not great, the second was better but he already signed with Mclaren before the stat of the 2020 season bc it started so late

oh look another joke about Ferrari... HAHAHAHAHAHAAHA OH MY GOD FUNNIEST THING EVER AMIRITE???????

@@igisanchez265 lol what a response. Chill bruh. I'm just memeing. The lvl of butthurt in your comment jesus.

@@igisanchez265 chill dawg it's all fun and giggles not

go easy on the tifosis they are under suicide watch for the last 10 years already.

Very true

Yeah cause of shit like this lol, also if drivers seats are threatened etc

lol it's true. As soon as he announced he's leaving Aston Martin all hell broke loose in less than a week. I'm leaving. I'm leaving too! He's driving for us!! The hell I am!!!

I can't see DR at Alpine and I think he's done his dash with Mclaren racing in general (they don't want him) might be that DR is done in F1.

As an American, bring some danny ricc to IndyCar! Never once thought about going to an indy race but he might just convince me to buy a ticket

@@erikostby2232 indy is really fun live u should go to a race

Or Williams if he's that keen to stay in F1

Indycar is special live because it just hasn't blown up so it's still affordable and you get to meet the drivers it's really cool so Ricciardo would be immensely popular with the burgeoning American F1 fanbase

The next 9 races with Alonso still driving for Alpine will be rather awkward to be sure. Even more so if Piastri announces where he will be driving before we get to Spa.

@@Dreded100 MMM know any team that made any shoking announcement in Spa in recent years? .... RB still looking for DR replacement wouldn't it be ironic if that was an Alpine young talent same team how stole the DR?

@@Dreded100 McLaren.

Fernando is such a Chad, I love that guy

Like Mercedes f… Bottas one year, one year and on the howling Wolf is a pc of s..

"Just can’t believe something this disorganised is happening in such a highly rated sport" Hasn't Ferrari proven this on a constant basis for the last few months? I mean, they have been such a mess albeit in a different aspect of management.

@@leonardoluc6362 the 1 year deals start coming when they want to get rid of you, but can't find a reason... hoping that you'll find something else and they won't have to sack you.

If they wanted Piastri from the beginning then they wouldn't wait for his contract to end to tell him he is promoted to the F1 seat. I don't think Piastri left Alpine because he thought they weren't good or he had better offer elsewhere but because they didn't take his offer on time...

I don't know. With all the fake sponsors, Ferrari etc, this sport has seemed nothing but a circus show for rich people to me for a long time.

Given his connections he can also be after a Red Bull seat via Alpha Tauri.

@@soundscape26 bro that's a great point. That would actually make great sense for Piastri to wait out a redbull seat at AT. Question is what will it do to the RB jr program now that they took Sergio and then take Piastri.

@@taz8808 don't really know, Webber was happy to leave F1, and Red Bull in particular, when he went in Porsche WEC. So I don't think it's personally against Ricciardo.

I would absolutely love this to happen

I second that

This soap definitely deserves it and it would be a refreshing brake from the Ferrari stuff….

Wrong Alpine was destroyed by their poor decisions, Otmar, Rossi, Ocon and Di Meo. They show how incompetent and unuseful they are

@@LuisGarcia-pr9yb So you partly agree with me then as you have also mentioned Ocon who’s a driver 😉!

@@LuisGarcia-pr9yb hey ocon is useful

​@@petertoluolushuyi7311 He wouldn't have won that race if it wasn't for Alonso defending like a lion

@HOT. NEGIN Shut up bot

Yeah, what a promising rookie.

Ay plenty of races to go back through at least!

If you like Fernando without having seen how he beat Micheal Schumacher to 2 world championships then just imagine how much those of us that saw it like him!

Unfortunately, while I like Alonso's driving, his greatest fan is himself.

I'm so happy that I started following him since 2003!

That’s what Alonso does as history shows.

I think it's simply that he'd rather drive at the back of the midfield with Aston for 2+ years than drive at the front of the midfield with alpine for 1

Prost warned us before preseason that Alpine was a disaster class after letting go Marcin Budkowski to leave with immediate effect. Prost and Alonso saw this coming.

@@Septimus_ii 60 millions better than 20... Yup, seems alright to me.

Does Alonso ever leave a team without burning all his bridges. He should be a five time champion but his actions are always unprofessional. Fine if you want KZfaq likes, not so great if you want titles.

Also, Alonso (perhaps deliberately) holds off on his signing announcement until the escape clause kicks in on Piastri's contract.

So as far as I am aware the sticking point with Alonso is that Alpine would only give him one year contract and he wanted multi year deal. Alpine wouldn’t offer it and then when Vettel dropped the retirement news Alonso went over and asked them and Aston said yes to a multi year deal. Alonso hadn’t actually been planning on switching prior to Vettel retiring. With Oscar, I don’t know if this is 100% true or not, but apparently Alpine had an option to retain him but the option expired on the 31st. Alpine didn’t exercise the option prior to the deadline… aka they forgot or someone dropped the ball and that let Oscar out of the contract. I’m sure we’ll find out soon enough if that is factual or not. But it is definitely plausible and looks really bad on Alpine. It also makes a hell of a lot of sense why they would risk this whole fiasco to try and put public pressure on Oscar to just accept driving for Alpine. What is even crazier is that he has apparently almost certainly come to a deal with Mclaren. And that crazy tweet that Marcus Ericsson put out with all the driver changes everyone said was crazy might actually play out! Smh

Sounds like Fernando and Oscar are good mates. Better mates than they are with their own team, in fact. I wonder if they (el) planned this together, to screw over Alpine as much as possible.

@@WhiskyCanuck Would certainly be a move that Alonso would do (no judgement here)

Mark Webber (OP's manager) and Alonso are known buds, so have those two executed well timed chess moves behind the scenes?

If you don’t think this WAS coordinated/If you think this WASNT coordinated I had a stroke reading your first sentence. Feel free to edit

@@yelsew.8 Thank you very much, you English language connoisseur

Yes, Alonso is a phenomenal driver ... but also a spiteful creature. That is why an equally talented Hamilton, who knows how to grease personal relationships, leads Fernando 7-2 in championships. Lesson: be agressive when necessary (on track) but nice when it doesn't cost you (beyond the track).

I also believe his decision was based on the Hungarian GP team management.

@@TheKickingDonkey really? Did Alonso also drive for the Merc that dominated the hybrid era ?

As always, Flavio is pulling strings.

Well now I'm not doing it.

RB still looking for DR replacement wouldn't it be ironic if that was an Alpine young talent same team how stole the DR?

In Leclerc voice tone: NOOOOOOOOOoooOOOoooOOOOooooOOO!

If Piastri is replacing Ricciardo at McLaren and Danny Ric can't get another F1 seat, I'd love to see him head to IndyCar to replace Palou. We know Ricciardo is a great driver and he'd be joining a team that wins championships and Indy 500s. I know he'd prefer stay in Formula One above all else but "Indy 500 champion Daniel Ricciardo" has to be at least a little enticing.

@windfall I dont think he would come out with that statement so quicky if he was going to williams. he would be rushing to get himself out of it

I would not be surprised when Vettel drives his last race at Monza and Alonso already jumps in. Why Monza? It was his first win.

I think that after what happened this first part of the season Alonso will barely notice the difference.

@@pcdispatch nah seb aint leaving early

Thats what exactly how the UTC+08.00 feel it just so confusing

I had that exact problem of absolute chaos unfolding at my hous ewith no caffeine then I hear about this my morning went from being kinda normal to wtf

This shit happened to me when Alonso signed for Aston, I was confused as hell

@@GameOver-nm2us Well, glad it wasn't on the same day as Seb announcing his retirement. I would think I was dreaming if I woke up with those news. Lol.

Thought pretty much the same. I just think that Alo jumping ship was somehow in motion time before all of this(even if it was covered pretty well by both parts) and the Ocon maneuvres in Hungary were team orders-like to have clear a seat for Piastri. I'm honestly still wondering why Piastri ditched specifically them when he's formally Alpine's local product, it seems too personal to being just a matter of a seat elsewhere. And here many are saying that, regardless of the car, Alpine is not a good team to run for...

Without a doubt it's #2

Very well thought out, you and the drivers.

And, a driver that does not have his contract renewed (screwed by his team) is not going to be happy . . . . queue the predictable twitter

they are french how on earth are they going to fire their fellow clown ocon

@@Bisstoro How is ocon a clown he always has tough teammates yet manages to beat them ocon beat Perez 16-5 in qualy

@@siyaaviation3659 ocon has never beaten a teammate in a season and hes not a clown for that. Just see some f1 and you will know why he is

@@Bisstoro I've watched since 2014 and ocon clearly was faster than Perez in the force India he would have beaten him if it wasn't for perez constantly trying to assert his dominance like when he squeezed him in Singapore

@@siyaaviation3659 Spa ‘17 and Baku ‘17 were pretty much the same Baku they threw away a possible 2-3

I could see Alpha tauri aswell. That would mean a worse car, than Alpine for the next 2 years, but the chance at Redbull to replace Perez for 2025.

@@unnamedunbekannt1691 I see the replacing Perez prospect but I don't think alpha tauri would break the gasly-yuki pairing just yet.

@@sdevfit I mean they sarcificed Kyvats career, so Max wouldn't leave. So Red Bull have done career destroying moves to secure talent for them before.

@@unnamedunbekannt1691 i doubt they wont sign Yuki even if Honda aint its Engine manufacturer Honda still borrowing the facilities to work on their engines, saying that, thats enough to keep Yuki who aint doing bad though i could be wrong

@@user-kf5mg1xl9w how good has Yuki been? Inconsistent is probably the best way to put it. But if Red Bull needs a reason to drop him, he gave them enough of those.

At this point I'm expecting an announcement that Alex Palou will be joining Alpine next year. Just to make everything even crazier.

Their problem started with signing Ocon at all. He's a terrible driver that never actually won against a teammate (across a season). They should have stuck with Hulkenberg.

@@jabba969 Same with Mick Schumacher beating Mazepin is hardly anything to shout about

@@pepsiaxe2937 Yup, I have doubts about Schumacher belonging in F1, with a different last name he would probably not have made it. Ocon is perhaps a bit better as a driver comparatively, but it didn't make sense to drop Hulkenberg IMO. (except for the French team French driver part)

@@jabba969 They wanted a French driver and now they are paying the price. It is not coincidence that Magnussen, Sainz, Hulkenberg, Ricciardo, Alonso and Piastri all left that team in, at least, not so good terms.

@@jabba969 Its ok, now they can have CLOWNcon drive both cars and always win against the teamm8

Don't forget the way Prost was forced out. I think this problem goes higher and pre-dates the arrival of Otmar.

@@copperfield3629 exactly, I think the big idiot here is Laurent Rossi

Came here to say that. And one of the teams rumored to be looking at Piastri is the same organization that signed Palou - McLaren

The statement was almost identical

Chad move

​@@valentin9947 this comment is soo stupid. if you didn't sign a contract you're not mandated to join them. its that simple. who cares if the team has "raised" you from the beginning. it's on the fine print!!

@@valentin9947 F1 is cutthroat, drivers with talent should always look for the top teams. He owes them nothing but thanks, that's all.

Otmar: "DAMMIT. Okay, cross him off the list. Who we got left?"

I mean I don't think Daniel has much of a choice... McLaren clearly don't want Ricciardo if they tapped up Piastri to drive for them. And there is no other seat available except for the one that 2 other drivers didn't want.

Or maybe Danny Ric gonna race for McLaren Formula E next year

Why Mclaren need another young driver if they have their cornerstone,in Norris. Mainly,F1 teams have young and more older drivers.

@@victorvic4659 that's when the older driver is actually useful to the team in some way

@@victorvic4659 because Ricciardo has stunk up the place and they will take any driver with a pedigree to back up Lando. I mean 19 pts from Ricciardo is embarrassing for what they are paying him.

Alternate more tinfoily theory would be that alpine was gonna sign piastri next year anyway but they wanted to wait for later in the season to announce. This of course wouldn’t be good for alonso so after the vettel announcement he decided to make moves and also letting mclaren know what was gonna happen so that it would screw over alpine as much as possible

I don't think his going to McLaren. Why would Mclaren give that seat to Oscar when Zak's been promising that seat to have of the american continent IMO his going to AT with the promise of Checo seat for 25 or before if they under/overperfome. RB still looking for DR replacement wouldn't it be ironic if that was an Alpine young talent same team how stole the DR?

Ocon should be the one to go. Piastri could have learned so much more from Alonso (not saying lando is bad but def not as experienced as Alonso) and maybe he will become the next WDC for Alpine. Now everything falls apart.

@@oliverxie9559 Piastri has been racing Karts with Alonso for 2 years now and it is clear as day he has absolute respect for him.

@@oliverxie9559 completely agree! Why give a driver backed by Mercedes a long contract while the driver that actually won a title in a Renault (albeit a long time ago) the short contracts. They should have looked to find a way for Oscar Piastri to learn from one of the greatest ever. Charles had Kimi and seb to sit next to George has hamilton to learn from Lando is paired up with ricciardo max has Sergio. The best teams always seem to have one young driver and one with the experience. And the move to secure ocon will continue to bite them in the ass.

the option was 31st July but some how they missed that date to lock him in again . once the date is passed they have no option legally so it's their utter fault. you leave a guy hanging the date passes you announce it like it's forgone conclusion, talk about incompetent or arrogant.

You sure? bc I don't think his going to McLaren. Why would Mclaren give that seat to Oscar when Zak's been promising that seat to have of the american continent IMO his going to AT with the promise of Checo seat for 25 or before if they under/overperfome. RB still looking for DR replacement wouldn't it be ironic if that was an Alpine young talent same team how stole the DR?

@@marie-emiliewulleart6521 Sure, but Oscar has been reportedly negotiating contracts with McLaren and Williams. And cause Williams is looking rather forward to sign Logan Sargeant to replace Latifi. I didn't knew about that with Checo, but currently as hard as it is to say as a Ricciardo fan, Oscar can't be worst than Daniel. And I don't think Checo would leave Red Bull now, while he's performing very well and doesn't needs to feel the pressure of Helmut Marko.

@@max83_max76 Yeah I know but hear me out, the reasoning behind my theory is that i don't think PIA would be so stupid as to burn the bridge to apline if he didn't have 'better' option, and to me the only possible better option is RB. You're right at the moment PIA looks better than DR for ML (i feel you're pain) but imo ML is not better than Apline for PIA in the long run so by distroy that relationship, when without making any fuss ML & Alpine/PIA can negotiate to end that 'contract/argreement' behind the scene (bc im sure Zak would do very thing in his power to not have a repeat of what is happening is Indy) plus Zak has other options to replace DR if he really wants to (of course PIA is an amazing option but i don't see ML fight to keep him if Alpines comes to get him back) Plus on RB side I just think it clear that Checo and Max are never happy in the same car and RB prefers to build a car for Max and want someone how can drive it too, like DR use to, and RB is always looking at the next talent (webber, vettle, DR, max), they just haven't found someone they can put next to max, galsy, albon, even checo, i don't think yuki will have chance, and the next real option in there adacemy is Hadjar i think, so not before 25-26 so why not see what PIA has to offer plus its RB if they want they put PIA next to Max and Checo AT if they feel like it, don't forget it Helmut & christian that decite there, and the are ruthless

Don't forget Alonso! ;)

I am sorry but Prost? Isn't that dude retired since the 90's?

@@GameOver-nm2us he had some role when it was branded Renault, (forget exactly what it was). Admittedly I don’t remember the details but he either walked out or was unceremoniously let go.

@@GameOver-nm2us yeah but they still incompetent right now...

@@michaelwilkie35 Laurent Rossi told him that his role as director at Renault f1 was “useless “ and they no longer needed him.