The biggest shock of F1 launch season? Alpine sign French football legend Zinedine Zidane
Zidane joins Alpine as brand ambassador and sponsor of its equality opportunities prog🌠rammes, including Rac(H)er and the Concours Excellence Mecanique.
He wasn’t the only high profile signing of the evening, with Olympic cham▨p♉ion Nicola Adams also joining the team.
Zidane is widely regarded as🅺 one of the greatest footballers of all-time, while many natives think he’s France’s best-ever.
Speaking at the launch event, the former Juventus and Real Madrid midfielder said: “I’m very happy to be here today and to spend a great evening with you. I’ve seen great things and I’m ever so happy to be part of t♎his team, to be part of the Alpine team, to be with you tonight.”
Explaining why he decided to join Alpine, he added: “Why? It’s always a m♋eeting that is starting something and I know that I had the opp💝ortunity to meet Laurent [Rossi, team director] with Davide [Brivio, racing director] and the whole team.
“The Alpine team, for a Grand Prix and I think we had a good exchange,🐼 we shared everything together and I think 🐷Alpine and Laurent had a project to give the opportunity to young people.
“To have their opportunities for all the youn♐g talent. I was very interested in this project and I said ‘why not see us again?’
“We ဣare talking about ꦬit tonight and we are all together here tonight.”
Alpine’s new driver for 2023 - 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pierre Gasly - admitted he didn’t “have the word�🔜�s” to describe Zidane’s arrival.
“I don’t think I have the words,” he said. “Since I was a kid I’ve been a huge fan of him. My racing number, number ten, is partly thaಞnks to him. I started playing football when I was five until I was 11-years-old.
“Definite🌞ly the biggest legend or icon in France. I’ve been able to spend like half an hour with him backstage and I was asking him tons of questions about his experiences, his career. He’s a very, very inspiring person.”
With a sharp eye for F1’s controversies and storylines, Connor is the heartbeat of our unbiased reportin꧙g.
