In the round-up: Formula 2 champion Oscar Piastri says the scale of Alpine’s testing programme for him during the 2022 Formula 1 season shows their commitment to him.
In brief
“Quite a lot of days” testing for PiastriHaving missed out on an F1 drive for 2022, Piastri says he’s “not sure it would have been the right move” as he wanted to stay loyal to Alpine. He will be the team’s reserve driver this year.
“I’ll be pretty busy despite not doing that much driving we are putting together a big testing programme,” he told Auto Action.
“In the last couple of years, there hasn’t been that many young reserve drivers, certainly not many young reserve drivers that are that are the sole driver in that role, so I think that speaks volumes about Alpine’s commitment to me.
“Also putting together this testing programme… it’s quite substantial. I don’t think it’s a programme that we would have seen for a young driver for quite some time, which is fantastic as…