But you're not bothered about Mercedes.
So, when's your contract over with Mercedes?
Are you locked out?
You gotta go out and in.
Anyway, see you later.
Sorry about the news, mate.
We'll have a good last nine races.
Maybe win one now, and then just…
Thanks, mate. Appreciate it.
When did you find out?
Long time ago?
During the break?
I mean, look, it's obviously still not the outcome I wanted,
but it is what it is.
So maybe I take a year off, I go to Mexico.
Just a couple of bits.
For your media stuff after,
he's gonna ask about whether you're ready to lead the team next year.
I already am!
Congrats on Piastri.
Throw your hands in the air if you're excited!
You caused some real shit, didn't you?
How are you?
I'm fine. What are you going to do?
Who knows? Who knows…
Indy 500?
That's scary!
Yes, okay.
But you'll be there, first, second. It's very different.
I get it. We'll see.
Yes, but I still want this.
I still like Formula 1.
I told you not to trust Zak.
Thank you, mate. Thank you.
Morning.
Is Zak around?
What's up?
I just wanted to say, with all this Oscar stuff,
although we lost Oscar, we think we have a good case in UK law.
He shouldn't have taken anything if he thought he didn't have a contract.
He took a lot from us.
It's unjust enrichment.
We've done the math already. The value of that is five million.
But, you know, the downside is
you guys going after him would be a PR disaster.
Is the five million worth it?
Five million, you don't just give that up.
I don't think we need to battle it out in the media.
-We say nothing. -But some of that might roll our way.
Without getting into my details of my Oscar contract,
I may have some support I have to give him,
so his problems become my problems.
And?
Alpine wanna sue Piastri, which is fucking crazy.
I feel like I can help.
Let's close this thing out.
We have Hulk, Mick, Gasly.
Daniel?
I'd love to see him here,
but that's only 'cause I'd love to see him stay in the sport.
He's one of the options.
Maybe we'll give him a chance.
Cool. All right. See you later.
-See you. -Cheers.
Is Daniel of interest?
He's one of the guys.
So, he's high on your list?
Yeah, of course he is, yeah.
Gasly, Ricciardo, Hülkenberg, all of the seasoned…
Yeah, all of the seasoned drivers.
All of the people that can jump into a car and clock in a decent timed lap,
to be honest.
This is what I'm looking at.
But Daniel, he upset everybody when he left.
It doesn't… it doesn't help.
To win with these two boys.
It's not the long-term project I thought we had signed up for.
We really wanna see you here.
Obviously, it's not down to us.
It will all work out.
Oh, yes, it is.
There are a lot of rumors of transfers, etc.
You have your contract for 2023.
Are you already thinking about the moves, the new drivers arriving?
Of course, these are things we are thinking about for the future.
Let's get stuck in, D.R. Let's see what we can do against these guys.
Understood.
That's half a second quicker than Vettel last lap.
If you can keep this pace, that's starting to look good.
Okay, Pierre, position is very good.
Alonso 2.2 behind.
Okay, possibly fighting Alonso behind.
Do you see how close I am?
Do you know how much more pace we have?
Keep working on it.
Head down. We can do it.
Gasly currently P12.
Understood.
Okay, Daniel, we'll box this lap.
Okay, could be close with Vettel at pit exit.
Daniel, we need good pace here. Stick with Vettel.
At the moment, he's too quick on the straights.
Daniel, can we keep this pace?
I'll keep pushing.
I'm just destroying the tires behind.
Under high pressure from Alonso.
I'm gonna get overtaken.
I would like you to update me on Ricciardo.
So we're still faster everywhere compared to Ricciardo.
But we need to keep the pace up.
Schumacher, 0.5.
Just behind.
Overtook.
The straights are killing me.
Let's stay with Schumacher.
The car behind is Magnussen now.
Understood.
Good job, Kev.
You pulled Ricciardo into our window.
Come on, Kev, you can get him.
-What the fuck are you doing? -Okay, Daniel, just keep going.
Five laps to go.
Yeah, there's a lot of cars in front.
Okay, this is very good defending.
Which position are we in?
P11.
We're fighting Stroll for P10. One more lap. Everything to play for here.
Okay, very good job today, P11.
And Stroll, P10.
I was catching him.
Still, right behind the top ten.
Yeah, a good race from you.
Good luck to Oscar.
Okay, Daniel, that's the checkered flag. P17. Not the race we wanted, to be honest.
Um… Yeah.
I know it's been pretty painful of late, but we'll keep at it.
Yeah, very difficult.
We'll speak after.
He did really well.
Welcome to Alpine.
You wanted to sue Oscar, right?
We deserve a second place.