Ocon responded to Alonso

Fernando Alonso is clear and strong at the end of Mexican F1 GP. The Asturian driver raced to repeat the only one Alpine suffering from mechanical problems is his, while the Or with it had some reliability hiccups. “Back to Car 14”, He said. The formation of the phrase was no accident. This is a clear message to the team. And after the new abandonment in Mexico, due to another failure in his engine, the Asturian is more clear: “I lost 60 points this year, so we added another six, so I lost around 66 . And obviously everyone else is benefiting them. , because everyone is getting more points than they deserve,” he said. “In the first year of Honda, we had a penalty of 72 grid positions at the end of the year, something like that, but what happens is that at Honda both cars stop. This year only the 14” car stoppedadded the Spaniard. But your partner Stephen Ocon He doesn’t seem to agree very much with Oviedo’s speech.

“I broke the gearbox at Imola, the car broke at Silverstone and I retired in Singapore. My car broke too.”, said driver Norman, who next year will continue in Alpine with a new teammate, Pierre Gasly. And in that sense, he remembered that he had mounted the same engines as the Spaniard: “I also changed six engines like him, obviously now one is broken, but we are on the same number of engines” . True, the Norman put 6 internal combustion engines like the Spanish, but Fernando used another turbo element and MGU-K.

Esteban also suffered from problems, but This does not deny a clear fact: that Alonso was more affected by mechanical setbacks, something that shows his entire season.

Esteban Ocon acknowledged that Alpine must improve its reliabilitybut satisfied with the path chosen by the French team to risk such setbacks by wanting to prioritize power over reliability.

Alpine It wants to prioritize its horsepower over its engine durability for an obvious reason: This year they have to get more power because the engines are frozen until 2026 and they can only be improved for reliability if the FIA ​​allows it. That’s why Alpine went for more power, aware that in this first year its engine may be affected by major problems. This is something that was already seen in the tests in Barcelona, ​​with some setbacks in the engine. The Alpine has the worst engine in 2021 and is the one with the most improvement compared to last year, which also faces a redesign in its propeller. Those factors are key to understanding your problems in this course.