Zak Brown said Alpine look "a little silly" after losing Oscar Piastri to McLaren following a high-profile legal battle.
Alpine wanted to promote the 2021 F2 champion to a race seat after Fernando Alonso announced he would be leaving for Aston Martin. But Piastri had already signed a deal with McLaren, which the Contracts Recognition Board later ruled was valid.
Losing that battle may have come as a surprise to the Enstone team, who had been very vocal about how "confident" they were over the whole situation. Team principal Otmar Szafnauer had also accused Piastri of a lack of integrity – an opinion later repeated by the team's chief executive Laurent Rossi.
