Those born in the old millennium will perhaps remember the game of chairs. The participants walked around in a circle ready to take their seats on one of the adjacent chairs, with the particularity that the number of seats was always less than one unit compared to the participants. An insider suggested this scenario to photograph the current situation of the drivers market, inflamed by Fernando Alonso’s decision to leave the Alpine and still very confused in terms of scenarios.
Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso with the Alpine A522s
Photo by: Alpine
Today another news has been added to Spa, definitely surprising, but at the same time reliable. Several sources have reported of a negotiation, at an advanced stage, between the French team and the management of Mick Schumacher, who is indicated as the driver most likely to reveal the seat occupied until the end of the season by Fernando Alonso.
A small ‘bomb’ in a context made already complex by the departure of Oscar Piastri towards McLaren.
Schumacher has never shown great enthusiasm about the possibility of competing in a third season with Haas, and the opportunity presented by the decisions of Alonso and Piastri was seized on the fly, applying for the vacated position.
The ball is in the hands of Alpine, but the impression is that the French team wants to conclude the Piastri affair first and then announce the name of the driver who will work alongside Esteban Ocon. And Ocon did not hide his favorable opinion on the possibility that the team decides to join Schumacher, with whom he shared the 2014 season in the Prema team.
If the negotiation is successful, Schumacher will conclude the presence in the Ferrari orbit, which began in 2019 with the entry into the Driver Academy of Maranello.
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