Alpine have been warned about the possible difficulty of managing the out🎉going Esteban Ocon for the rest of the year.

Days after it was confirmed that the under-fiဣre Ocon will exit Alpine at the end of this season, he was involved in a flashpoint with his employers in Canada.

Ocon disputed a team orders call, which he 🌳followed, to allow teammate Pierre Gasly through in the closing stages of the F1 Canadian Grand Prix.

Ocon called the requ🐈est “nonsense” but gave Alpine “the benefit of the doubt”.

F1 Nation podcast host Tom Clarkson said: “He🎀 thinks⭕ he has been too nice? Shots have been fired!

“It was a v🐽ery difficult weekend for Esteban. Two difficult weekends - the crash with Pierre in Monaco, the harsh conversations he had with the team, the news that he had coming to Montreal that he would no longer be staying with the team.

“So it was dℱifficult. T❀hen, the car wasn’t great in the dry over one lap.

“He’s on the back foot going into the grand prix. He had mechanical issues on the grid. I🌌 remember walking past the car, it was surrounded by mecꦑhanics, there were questions whether he’d even start the grand prix.

“Given all of that, he had a brilliant race!

“When he says ‘I am too nice’ it’s a marker in the sand that ‘I am n𒁃ot 💟going to do it again’.”

Natalie Pinkham replied: “When the dust settlꦦes I hope he reflects on how well he did.

“You’ve got to reme🎐mber that he’s trying to sell himself now to other teams to ꦍtry to secure his Formula 1 future.

“I find it so interesting - the likes of Lew𝓡is Hamilton, Esteban, Carlos Sainz - when you know you’re leaving a team, how the mind-set shifts.

“Perhaps🎃 a bit of paranoia creeps in. You don’t know who your mates are in the team, and how they 𒁃respond to you.

“The dynamic cha🍸nges with your teammate. The sharing of information changes.

“Look at Adrian Newey, he has baﷺsically been alienated from 🔯within.

Once you make that an🅠nouncement, everyt🐷hing changes, and it’s how you manage it from within.

“ꦓBruno Famin has got a job on his hands to manage his two dri🎃vers.”

Clarkson added: “It looks like Gasly will stay there so they will include him in technical conversatio🃏ns, but exclude Ocon.”

Oco♑n cau𓆏sed a furore in Monaco last month when he collided with teammate Gasly, dismaying Alpine.

Alpine are now on the lookout for a👍 new driver for 2025 while Ocon must seek employment ꧟elsewhere.