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Esteban Ocon has asserted that drivers not being listened to enough has been a recurring thing that has contributed to Alpine continuing to underdeliver in Formula 1. Alpine has endured a miserable campaign this season which has witnessed it accumulate 11 points in 14 races to languish eighth in the Constructors’ Championship. The Enstone-based squad’s […]
Alpine has struggled in the current F1 season, gathering only 11 points in 14 races and holding the eighth position in the Constructors’ Championship standings. The team is undergoing significant restructuring and plans to transition its engine department into a customer operation. Despite Renault’s return to full-time F1 involvement in 2016, now operating as Alpine since 2021, the team has not achieved better than a fourth-place finish. Esteban Ocon has highlighted the lack of effective incorporation of drivers’ feedback as an ongoing issue since his arrival in 2020. As Ocon prepares to join Haas in 2025, he emphasized the importance of timely problem-solving and expressed frustration over unresolved performance issues at Alpine. He denied that a lack of resources was a primary factor in Alpine’s decline, wishing the team success in the future with its new technical personnel. Ocon clarified that his impending departure has not diminished his involvement in engineering meetings at Alpine, emphasizing the importance of continuity in technical development for the team.
