Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso were partners in Alpine F1 for two seasons, and when they were out on the track, their relationship was outwardly quite normal, even sincere, but on the track they became regular participants in incidents. Perhaps the highlight of what happened in Brazil during Saturday’s sprint, when there was contact between their machines, which was accompanied by angry remarks on the radio, then a very serious conversation took place within the team between the riders and Alpine management.
At the end of the season, Okon scored more points than his famous partner, but it should be noted that the two-time world champion retired six times for technical reasons, and this, of course, affected his results.
However, Esteban had his own difficulties, and now he decided to talk about it more frankly in an interview with the French newspaper L’Equipe. When asked how the team distributed the workload, he replied very emotionally: “I hope this will change now because honestly 98% of the work has been done by me and only 2% by Alonso.
The workload was not excessive, but I did all the work to fine-tune the car on the simulator and I also had to participate in almost all the marketing campaigns.
I think that now, when Pierre Gasly joins the team, we can agree on the division of responsibilities. This will help me save more energy for racing next season. I am sure that everything will be much better in this regard now.
Source: F1 News
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