Leaving Miami, the CEO of Alpine expressed his anger in an interview with the official Formula 1 website. Laurent Rossi’s statements sounded like an ultimatum towards the team led by Otmar Szafnauer. Just three weeks later, Ocon climbs the podium with his third place in the Monaco GP and amends a bad start to the campaign by his team, which has scored more points in Monte Carlo (21) than it had in the previous five races (14). He is also Esteban’s first podium since the victory in Hungary 2021.
“I have no words, I’m in a cloud. We would have already signed a ‘top-10’ before the weekend, but this shows that we never stop believing. We had a difficult start to the season, but from the first session in Monaco I felt strong in the car, confident, and I could push. That allowed me to do the qualifying lap, which is 90% of the work”, Explain. He achieved third place on the grid, and came to occupy the provisional pole for a few moments.
Now he shares the podium with his former teammate, Alonso. Healthy envy of Aston Martin? “I have great respect for what Aston Martin is doing, They show that it is possible to rise from the middle zone and be a ‘top’ team”. In any case, everyone at Alpine wants to keep the Monte Carlo weekend trend going. “Everyone is happy, that’s for sure. F1 is unpredictable, you don’t know what’s going to happenr. With such a tight grid, a little more pace changes your pace completely. This weekend has been incredible from the preparation and we keep pressing, we don’t stop believing. I hope it will be the first podium of many. We’ll see next week. But the car was better. We will have improvements, everything was going in the right direction in Monaco and I hope this is the start of something”, predicts Ocon.
