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

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      3 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.

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        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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          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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            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

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              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.