At the final lap in Singapore, both Alpine riders, Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon, retired due to a powertrain failure. The team’s technical director, Pat Fry, said breakdowns are the unavoidable costs of Alpine’s approach to development, which prioritizes engine efficiency over reliability.
“Growth problems are inevitable,” explains Suzuka’s Pat Fry. “We’ve made a lot of changes this year, but this approach has resulted in more productivity gains than we’ve seen in recent years.
We’ve done a great job, but we’ve always remembered that our main goal is to increase efficiency, and we’ll talk about reliability later. I think this approach is daring, but from time to time such problems arise.
Now we can say that several problems have arisen with the cars of the racers. The engines were delivered to the base on Tuesday afternoon and now we are trying to find out the causes.
I must say that such a refusal was a novelty for us. We need to understand the reasons because without it we cannot guarantee that this will not happen again. We have to analyze everything carefully.”
Source: F1 News
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