The great result of Fernando Alonso, Esteban Ocon and the team Alpine in general during the Brazilian Grand Prix eclipsed what happened in the sprint classification on Saturday: the French closed the Asturianwho to avoid going off the line had to do a counter-steering that ended with his car damaging his partner’s.
Both were relegated to the last positions on the grid, but in the race everything that has gone wrong in recent months, almost for the first time, went right, and both completed a great comeback to the points zone.
Analyzing what happened on Saturday, and with one race to go, Antonio Lobatonarrator of Formula 1, has described as “duel of roosters” what happened in the Enstone team.
“There is a cockfight. It is an absurd battle for many people, but for a pilot, beating your teammate is something you like. It is a personal goal of both of them, Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso. They forgot about the battle with McLaren”, he explained on ‘DAZN’.
Lobato does not believe the Frenchman’s justification: “Esteban, explaining the maneuver, said that he had not seen Fernando Alonso because he was fighting with Norris, which is not true because it was not there. He closes perfectly because he knows that he is Fernando“.
In fact, remember the confrontation that Ocon had with ‘Czech’ Perez in Force India four seasons ago, pointing out that Esteban always goes “to the limit”, which can be “dangerous”.
“If we remember a bit of the past, exactly the same thing happened to Esteban Ocon at the time of Force India with Checo Pérez, where they had tremendous battles and at times very dangerous. He always goes to the limit”, has settled the F1 narrator.