
obviously oscar was the priority that race. I’m sure McLaren likes the driver winning the drivers championship, but yeah Lando has been with the team for a lot longer. Lando also didn’t do extremely shady shit when joining the team which is a red flag. So i can see why they favor the veteran driver over the guy who is going to leave the first opportunity he gets
If alpine had reason to believe oscar was going to sign the contract it seems to me there is something more to that situation than just “oscar didn’t sign” I think Oscar verbally commited to being with alpine and then backed out as soon as he got the offer from McLaren. Just given who he is it makes sense he would do whatever he could to benefit himself at the demise of others