Esteban Ocon blasts outgoing Alpine teammate Fernando Alonso: “The work was 98% on my back”

Alonso will drive for Aston Martin next year, meaning Ocon and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pierre Gasly will team up for Alpine in a new-look 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 2023 driver line-up.
Tensions between Alonso and Ocon hit boiling point in Brazil, the penultimate weekend of the seas♍on, when team boss Laurent Rossi scolded them for clashing in thꦺe sprint race.
“It has been like this all year,” Alonso reacꦆted to making cont🎉act with Ocon.
Ocon has now r♊esponded: “Of course, I was disappointed by his comments in the press and not internally.
“We haven't had any discussions about that. I will keep the respect I hav🌊e for him.
“It's good that he's going to Aston Martin and we're doing our bit on ou🌟r own. Honestly, the work was 98 percent on my back and two percent on his.
“I was overworked. I was the one who did all the devel♋opment 𒁏in the simulator, the marketing trips…”

Alonso hinted that Ocon was at fault for three incidents between them in 2022, sa𝔉rcastically saying: “Sometimes it is very competitive inside a team.”
Rossi, the Alpine CEO, accused their 𝔍contact in the Sao Paulo sprint race of being “gross misconduct”.
Ocon finished eighth in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 standings, Alons⛄o ninth. Alpine impressively came fourth in the con🐓structors’ championship.
Ocon s✅aid about whether the French team can improve in 2023: “This is the go🤪al to step up, but the gap is huge between fourth and third place. It will take time and we should not underestimate the other teams.”
Ocon’s new teammate Gasly is a childhood friend - although they have also endured a rocky relations༺hip at times.
“We havꦍe k🎃nown each other very well for several years,” Ocon said.
“The first tim♏e he got into a go-kart, it was mine. We rode together on the same circuits, the same competitions. We had a d𒆙ream: to drive together in F1, we got there. I can't wait to get started.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a꧋ decade covering everything from American sports, to foo✅tball, to F1.