‘We’ll never be best friends’ but Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon vow to work together at Alpine F1
Gasly has joined Ocon to form an all-French line-up at Alpine, having been signed to replace two-time world champion168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Fernando Alonso, who moved to Astonꦛ Martin over the winter.
The pair were childhood friends and karting rivals but have endured an uneasy relationship in recent years after a 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:falling out.
“I think it’s been really good,” Gasly said of his init♛ial experience of working alongside Ocon.
“We’ve spent more time together in the past two months 🍃than w🀅e’ve spent in the last eight years or 10 years. I think it was very important and I’m pleased with the way things are going with Esteban.
“I think we are both grown-up people now, much more mature. Aware of 🔯the responsibilities that we have representing a team like Alpine with the Renault Group behind us.
“I have no doubt﷽s that we will be able to work well and push the team forward. It’s going to benefit all of us.”𒊎
Ocon said he and new teammate Gasly are “never going to be best 🙈friends” but is sure they can work together🐻 to help Alpine achieve their goals.
“We are never going to be best friends, but the important thing is to keep the flow go🦄ing together, which creates debate and solutions with the team and that’s how it’s been in motorsport forever,” he explained.
"The fact that the drivers work together and notify any issue or a way to work and the team comes up with some resolutions, and that’s what💫 we need to try and get from our team to be able to fight at the front.”
Ocon and Alonso had several on-track clashes as a feisty intra-team battle brewed last seas𝐆on, and the Frenchman said he has no plans to change his aggressive approach.
“I’m a racing driver, I’m competing to beat e🉐veryone,”🎃 he said.
“That’s how I’ve been racing my whole life and how I’ve succeeded and won titles in the past. And that’s how i🐓n the end I beat Fernando as well, racing how I want to race.
"For me it’s important to score the points and work together with Pierre, that’s very important. But I want to fight anyone and I believe I can f𒁃ight anyone.”
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