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So no further news out yet. But its looking like McLaren HAVE signed Piastri but they have few to no get out clauses with Danny R. So current theory is that McLaren are either trying to do a deal with Alpine to see if they can take him and reduce the burden on McLaren or McLaren will buy him out of his contract.
The issue there is that he is contracted for next season so might have to worst case pay him circa $15-20m to say sorry you aren't driving with us on top of what they are paying for Piastri.
So a bit of a mistake on Zac B's side that all the options to exit are on the drivers side not the teams. Worst case is Danny says no I want to drive and the team say no we offer you $5m to leave and Danny says nope and it all goes to court to decide what happens next. The fact there is no quick announcement from any driver or team suggests that this is going to take a while to work through and lawyers are getting involved to help negotiate the route out I suspect.
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