Alpine made it clear that Ocon will start in Canada

After Esteban Ocon’s overly aggressive performance in the first lap of the Monaco Grand Prix, aimed at his own Alpine F1 teammate, team boss Bruno Famen was angry and threatened tough action.

The motorsport press immediately began putting forward versions of who could take the Frenchman’s place at the next round in Canada, but the intrigue soon began to fade when Ocon stressed in his emotional statement last week that he intended to to start the race. start in Montreal.

“I’m looking forward to performing in Montreal in front of the fantastic Canadian fans,” Esteban said at the time, and now the Renault factory team has confirmed this.

How else can you interpret the poster dedicated to the upcoming stage in Canada, which she shared today? On it we see portraits of both Alpine F1 drivers – Pierre Gasly and Ocon. The comment is short: “We have rested and are now ready to get back to the starting line.”

By the way, recently Günter Steiner, the former head of Haas F1, participating in the podcast The Red Flags, also argued that if he were Alpine management, he would not yet change Ocon for another driver.

“To suspend him now would take away his motivation,” Steiner said. – There are only a few races left of the season, the end of the championship is still far away, and if we resort to such measures now, what will this lead to? If I were Alpine’s management, I would do this: I would warn Ocon that he is forgiven this time, but there will be no next time – he will have to say goodbye to the team.

Suspending him for one race is a kind of childish punishment. If you punish a child for something, he will become offended. When such methods are used in a racing team, a kind of ‘blame culture’ is created. But Esteban must be warned that if something like this happens again, another rider will take his place.”

It’s likely that Alpine did just that.