Ocon’s ‘Rajada’ on Alonso

Esteban Ocon He always defends his relationship in the press Fernando Alonso he is good. But his friction on the track said otherwise. The French defended his position against the Asturian very aggressively Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Hungary and in the sprint race of Brazil, where the two end up touching each other. The Asturian did not like that, who recriminated this behavior of Or with several times on the radio, until it finally exploded after what happened at the sprint appointment of Brazil. Now, over and over again Fernando Alonso going to Aston Martin, the driver of the Normandy spoke freely in the statements on the specialized portal ‘Motorsport Nextgen Auto’. The Frenchman assured that Fernando “let him down” and blamed the Spaniard for making public his opinion about the dispute with Esteban on the track in his televised statements instead of everything being managed in private. In addition, he was relieved of the Spaniard’s departure and hurt, according to him, accumulating almost all the work in the simulator and marketing trips to satisfy the sponsors.

“Of course, I was disappointed by his comments, which only appeared in the press. Internally, we didn’t really discuss anything about all that, we had conversations with Laurent Rossi (CEO of Alpine),” he said, and as Laurent himself admitted in Brazil, he told his drivers he had no problem letting him out of their cars if they fought again on the track. “But I prefer to keep it private and we talk about it person to person. He didn’t, he went to the press. As I said, I will always maintain the respect I have for him. I was disappointed, of course, but I respect what he did on the track, his titles and his motivation at this age,” said Ocon.

“I think it’s good that he went to Aston Martin and that we make our way as we have to,” added Ocon about Fernando, who threw another ‘dart’ at the Spaniard. “Actually, I did a lot. It was 98% on my back and 2% on his. I was…let’s not say too much work, but I was doing everything. I was doing all the simulator development, I was him made almost all the marketing trips”, he commented, hoping that with the arrival of Pierre Gasly, who is certainly not a great friend, things would change in this sense: “With Pierre I thought we could share the this work and that can help me maintain energy for the season. I’m sure that side will be better.”

“Everyone says that Fernando is taking up a lot of space. This is Fernando, that’s Fernando… but I have a place like he has in the team, to build the car, set up, I do what I have to do to my team.” he says.

“It was a pleasure to finish in front of him”

Esteban Ocon also wanted to repeat his “pleasure” because he finished the course ahead of Fernando Alonso in the overall World Cup standings, ignoring that the Spaniard suffered more reliability setbacks in his car

“It’s a pleasure to finish ahead of Fernando at the end of the year. In the last two years, we have to be proud of what we have achieved for the brand. In these two seasons, we became close. Of course we touched Brazil, but we started close to more than 40 races in two years with a clean fight. It’s a great thing to work with a legend like him and a two-time world champion,” he said.

“It’s a big satisfaction for me to be able to finish ahead of him. He made me progress because you always learn from a teammate, you learn from the way a new teammate works, and I hope he also learned from me,” added Ocon , who finished 8th in the World Cup with 92 points, with Fernando in 9th with 81 points. The Asturian suffered more reliability problems with his car than Ocon and that was in favor of the French, who, on the contrary, continued to falter after finishing in front of Fernando.

“There are many aspects of the competition in which Fernando is very strong: in strategy, in understanding the race, what he has to do, he is a very alert person and very quick in his head. He discovered me many things that I will keep “But it was the same when I worked with Daniel (Ricciardo) or Sergio (Pérez). I wish Aston Martin the best and I hope we continue fighting on the track,” he concluded about his former teammate.