Australia\u2019s Formula 1 superstar Oscar Piastri has thanked his fans on X in a cheeky nod to one of the most controversial events of his career.<\/p>\n
The McLaren driver sent out a tweet overnight, thanking his followers for all of the \u201canniversary messages\u201d.<\/p>\n
The anniversary in question?<\/p>\n
Four years since Piastri unequivocally denied Alpine\u2019s statement that the driver had signed with them for the 2023 season.<\/p>\n
After two-time world champion Fernando Alonso confirmed his shock exit from Alpine in 2022, the team wasted no time confirming their academy driver Piastri as his replacement on August 2, 2022.<\/p>\n
The problem was Piastri and his management had clearly not been consulted on the announcement. <\/p>\n
Within hours, Piastri had released his own social media statement, denying he had put pen to paper for the French racing team and confirmed he had no plans to join them despite being their academy driver throughout his junior career.<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand that, without my agreement, Alpine F1 have put out a press release late this afternoon that I am driving for them next year. This is wrong and I have not signed a contract with Alpine for 2023. I will not be driving for Alpine next year,\u201d his tweet read.<\/p>\n
Piastri went on to sign for McLaren for 2023 and is signed there until at least the end of 2028.<\/p>\n
The tweet is still recirculated daily throughout Formula 1\u2019s social media circles.<\/p>\n
\u201cThanks for all the anniversary messages,\u201d Piastri tweeted overnight, clearly overwhelmed with the attention the anniversary of the blunder received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Formula 1 superstar Oscar Piastri has thanked his fans on X in a cheeky nod to one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[413716,413722,413710,413705,413723,8288,413696,93752,413711,413702,380917,413714,413719,408753,413712,821,197170,22955,64,405455,63,817,1635,845,813,413708,816,260185,379545,413700,382418,413725,413721,411618,413707,413717,413697,413704,51501,413701,913,413715,413694,43961,155207,413713,381895,49132,4845,25985,51396,16380,85,413718,413720,288136,378926,413724,413709,95427,215379,413703,413693,380908,413695,315971,413698,413699,11857,413706],"class_list":["post-841397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-s-formula-1-superstar-oscar-piastri","tag-s-most-infamous-tweet","tag-s-nod","tag-s-social-media-circles","tag-s-statement","tag-8288","tag-2022-the","tag-93752","tag-2028-the-tweet","tag-a-cheeky-nod","tag-a-contract","tag-a-press-release","tag-a-shock-contract-announcement","tag-a-tweet","tag-all-the-anniversary-messages","tag-alpine","tag-alpine-f1","tag-anniversary","tag-au","tag-august-2","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-fans","tag-fernando-alonso","tag-formula-1","tag-formula-1-star-oscar-piastri-thanks","tag-formula1","tag-four-years","tag-his-career","tag-his-fans","tag-his-followers","tag-his-infamous-public-denial","tag-his-junior-career","tag-his-management","tag-his-own-social-media-statement","tag-his-replacement","tag-his-shock-exit","tag-his-tweet-read-piastri","tag-hours","tag-late-this-afternoon","tag-mclaren","tag-mclaren-star-oscar-piastri","tag-my-agreement","tag-newswire-sport","tag-next-year","tag-no-plans","tag-no-time","tag-paper","tag-pen","tag-piastri","tag-problem","tag-question","tag-sports","tag-the-anniversary-messages","tag-the-2023-season-after","tag-the-anniversary","tag-the-announcement","tag-the-attention","tag-the-blunder","tag-the-driver","tag-the-end","tag-the-four-year-anniversary","tag-the-french-racing-team","tag-the-mclaren-driver","tag-the-most-controversial-events","tag-the-team","tag-their-academy-driver","tag-their-academy-driver-piastri","tag-two-time-world-champion","tag-viral-alpine-snub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}