Another mess in Alpine and Ocon ‘explodes’ in this fury

The team Alpine It is not going through its best moments and internal disturbances are constantly in the news. Two weeks ago, in Monaco, Esteban Ocon forgot the team’s strategy at the start and hit his teammate gaslysomething that resulted not only in his dropping out, but also in his place in the French team, which would soon announce that Esteban He will not continue with the French team next season. And in Canada, he joined again. This time, it was because of Alpine’s request to hand over his eighth position to Pierre Gasly at the end of the race, something that Ocon initially refused, and finally obeyed orders that he did not understand.

“What is the reason?”, he said on the radio when he was asked to give his seat to his partner. “Try to attack Ricciardo,” the engineer replied. Esteban was chasing the Australian and they asked Gasly to try, something that seemed complicated.

“Forget it!”, Ocon exclaimed. Although later, he ended up working together and let Pierre pass against his will with two laps to go.

Radio against the team: “You didn’t do what you should have done”

For all these reasons, after the race, Esteban Ocon was not silent. No more Alpine seats for next year, the Norman pilot didn’t bite his tongue. He began to do so in his radio comments: “No comments. I’m too nice, too nice… I’ve done what I had to do, which is the most important thing. But you didn’t do what you should have done.”

“Being the good guy in F1 doesn’t always pay off”

And later, he continued his complaints to the press.

“What happened was they asked me to let Pierre pass because he was two seconds behind the next. I told them it was not possible. The team told me to let him pass”he explained to ‘DAZN’ after the 2024 F1 Canadian GP. “I did my part as a team player and lost the position on the penultimate lap. I’m not happy with that because I had a better race and I should have been ahead”he continued.

“I showed again that I do the best for the team, I respect the instructions that are always given to me and I did it again,” he added.

“It’s a shame it had to end like this. Being a good person in Formula 1 doesn’t always pay off and that bothers me a lot. I hope it all works out”he said in some surprising words, because he was not always ‘the good one’ in his career due to his aggressiveness in the battles with his colleagues, as happened with ‘Checo’ Pérez, Fernando Alonso and recently, with Gasly .

“We had a very good race and we got the points and in the end I didn’t have the full potential of the battery. Today I did my part and the team didn’t do its job”finished clearly and concisely.