What’s triggered F1’s team boss merry-go-round?

Just look at how Sebastian Vettel’s decision to retire before F1’s summer break set off a chain of events that ended up with Fernando Alonso at Aston Martin, Pierre Gasly at Alpine and Nyck de Vries at AlphaTauri (and that’s ignoring the Oscar Piastri to McLaren shenanigans).

What is much rarer is for this kind of crazy merry-go-round to involve Formula 1 team principals to the extent it has this week.

While movement of top brass is not uncommon in F1 – as Otmar…