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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pierre Gasly will team up for Alpine in a new-look 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 2023 driver line-up.
Tensions between Alonso 🍷and Ocon hit boiling point in Brazil, the penultimate weekend of the season, when team boss Laurent Rossi scolded them for c꧅lashing in the sprint race.
“It has been like this allꦐ year,” Alonso reacted to making contact with Ocon.
Ocon has now responded: “Of course, I was disappointed by his comments in 🐽the press and not internally.ꦛ
“We haven't had any discussions about t𝄹hat. I will keep the respect ൲I have for him.
“It's good that he's going to Aston Martin and we're doing our bit on our own. Honestly, t꧟he work was 98 percent on my back and two percent on his.
“I was overworked. I was the one who di🃏d all the development in the simulator, the marketing trips…”

Alonso hinted that𒁏 Ocon was at fault for three incidents between th🥂em in 2022, sarcastically saying: “Sometimes it is very competitive inside a team.”
Rossi, the Alpine CEO, accused their contact in the Sao Paulo sprint race of being “🅰gross misconduct”.
Ocon finished eighth in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 standings, Alonso ninth. Alpine impressively came fourth in the co𝐆nstructors’ championship.
O🅷con said about whether the French team can improve in 2023: “This is the goal to step up, but the gap is huge between fourth and third place. It wܫill take time and we should not underestimate the other teams.”
Ocon’s new teammate Gasly is a childhood friend - although t🐽hey have also endured a rocky relationship at time🎀s.
“♓We have known each other very well for several years,” Ocon 🐎said.
“The first time h🌸e got into a go-kart, it was mine. We rode together on the same circuits, the same competitions. We had a dream: to drive together in F1, we got there. I can't wait to get started.”

James was a s🍌ports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.