The 'I don't want to drive for Alpine' Formula 1 Silly Season saga has taken so many twists and turns that it's taken me a while to tackle this one and try to make some sense of it all. To sum up: the Silly Season really fired off in anger when Fernando Alonso defected from Alpine to replace retiring Sebastian Vettel at Aston Martin which caught everyone off guard. Among us esteemed F1 journo Joe Saward who wrote in his blog: 'I was just a tad irritated when I heard that Fernando Alonso had signed for Aston Martin because it seemed before that came that he would be staying at Alpine in 2023. 'It was a big surprise in that it is utterly illogical (except from a financial point of view) and...
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