Fernando Alonso will leave the Alpine team to race in 2023 with Aston Martin, where he will take over from Sebastian Vettel who has just announced his farewell to Formula 1. It was the English team itself that gave the news with a press release.
Alonso -
two-time F1 world champion
in 2005 and 2006 - celebrated his 41st birthday on Friday.
And yesterday he finished eighth in the Hungarian Grand Prix, ahead of his French teammate Esteban Ocon.
At the moment the Sagnolo is 10th in the World Championship after 13 races with 41 points.
In the squad owned by Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll,
Alonso will succeed Vettel
, who on Thursday announced his retirement from F1 at the end of the current season.