• @[email protected]
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    254 months ago

    That was such a weird and funny series of events. Oscar made a killer call, obviously, and alpine fumbled stuff per usual

    • @[email protected]
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      94 months ago

      Imagine if Alpine had been less… Alpine about it all and had actually signed Piastri. He’d presumably be nowhere and Ricciardo might be having a better time at McLaren.

      • @[email protected]
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        74 months ago

        You know I had not even thought about that. I love Piastri, he is doing something awesome with McLaren, but part of me would love to see a smiling Ricciardo back on the podium. Could Dani be winning races if still at McLaren?

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          14 months ago

          It’s really hard to say. A lot of people think he’s past it, but he did have that flash of brilliance at Monza even when the car wasn’t a front-runner, so who knows!

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            34 months ago

            Totally agree. It would be interesting to see if he’d be to Lando like Checo to Max, or if he’d be up there fighting for wins

          • misery mansion
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            14 months ago

            You seem to have forgotten that they literally paid him millions of dollars to leave

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              14 months ago

              That’s because he was still under contract, right? So presumably if they hadn’t signed Piastri then they’d still have Ricciardo as their driver.

  • @[email protected]
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    154 months ago

    I remember people on reddit saying that wasn’t professional and he wouldn’t be taken seriously in the paddock anymore. I love armchair experts.

    • @woelkchenM
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      44 months ago

      I love armchair experts.

      If I made an F1 car, I just made it faster. It’s really easy to solve Alpine’s problems.

  • @Caboose12000
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    54 months ago

    I don’t know anything about f1 racing, what’s the context here?

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      The context is basically the tweet, Alpine team announced first they signed Oscar Piastri to drive for them. He had privately signed with another team, McLaren. He called out Alpine very publicly. Then recently his season started taking off with McLaren developing into a top car, while Alpine struggles.