Button responded to Ocon about Alonso and his teammates

Stephen Oconin statements to ‘Motorsport.com’, wants to defend his performance with Fernando Alonso, whom he beat this season by 7 points in 6 races remaining in F1 World Cup.

“I don’t read everything that is said about me, but I hope that when I do something good, it will be reported as such, and others will have an idea. But it is true that there are people who say to me ‘ ah, I did not notice the your classification at Spa’, or ‘I forgot you won last year’. I admit it’s a bit strange to me”, says Norman, critical of the fact that some do not recognize his merit.

“In the end, in qualifying, compared to Fernando, we go 9/7 in his favorbut I have a few more points in general. Last year, if we talk about classification, we finished the season in a tie: 11 to 11″, He commented, before launching into a powerful appreciation: “If I look at Fernando’s career, the only teammate at his level is Lewis. Everyone else didn’t do better than me.”

This phrase did not seem to satisfy the 2009 F1 world champion, Jenson pressed. “I don’t agree,” the British responded on social networks to a publication that shared Esteban Ocon’s phrase.

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Results without analysis or context

And it is that the loose numbers agree with the French, but the context needs to be checked. It’s true that Ocon equaled Alonso in the ‘qualy’ in 2021, but he did so in the season of Fernando’s return to F1 two and a half years later., so Norman started with an advantage because Alonso recognized that he needed 5 races to adapt to the car. For his part, he did not mention that although Fernando returned to F1, the Asturian overtook him in terms of final points in 2021. The numbers also do not tell that Fernando Alonso lost many points (“40 or 50”, according to the Spaniard) at the start of the season full of bad luck for the Spaniard due to reliability problems.

Without further ado, this 2022, Fernando reached the course’s sixth Grand Prix, the one in Spain, with just 2 points after various reliability problemsa touch in Imola and an incomprehensible penalty in Miami, while his companion Ocon arrived with 24. Since then, despite the fact that Alonso suffered more setbacks, the Spaniard chained 10 consecutive races in the points until he suffered another problem with his car at Monza, reducing Ocon’s deficit to the current 7 points.

“Personally I feel like I’m doing a good job, yes. So it’s a little strange, sometimes, to see that from the outside there are people who perceive a little differently,” concluded Ocon. The Frenchman is doing a good job, but the numbers don’t show Alonso’s superiority when he doesn’t have mechanical problems or when bad luck allows him to confirm it.

Should Button stick his neck out for 2015?

Fernando Alonso beat all of his teammates except Hamilton in 2007 (they finished tied) and Jenson Button in 2015.

Neither should that 2015 season be used as an example nor should Jenson be served to bare his chest like he did on Twitter. The Spaniards and English piloted a McLaren with many engine problems where they accumulated many dropouts. That Button finished with 16 points to the Spaniard’s 11 may be a bit anecdotal, considering that Fernando Alonso is the driver who has accumulated the most penalty positions on the grid for reliability failures in his Honda engines: a total of 13 penalties, including those corresponding to positions on the starting grid for changing engines. Meanwhile, Button was penalized 10 times. Jenson added 5 abandonments and Alonso, 7.

A year later, Fernando at least managed to compete: he scored 54 points and 10th, crushing his teammate Button, who only had 21 points, less than half of the Spaniard.