Esteban Ocon has completed a remarkable course in Formula 1. With the Alpine, the Frenchman made several important performances and even finished in the World Cup ahead of Fernando Alonso… although it is true that the Spaniard had a season marked by reliability problems in his car.
The paths of both separate, after the signing of Fernando by Aston Martin, and in Alpine they continue to throw flowers at an Ocon from which they highlight how his career was in Japan.
This is how his boss, Otmar Szafnauer, tells it, who has also procured for him a curious nickname based on the one that Sergio Pérez also has.
“I know that Checo’s nickname is Defense Minister… but maybe we should adapt that to Ocon. What is Minister of Defense in French? Let’s find out…and give him that nickname!” he said to a Motorsport question.
All thanks to his work in Japan: “Suzuka stands out. Lewis, very good in the wet, in changeable conditions, in the dry… Driving with a Mercedes and always being in his rear-view mirror.
“I was in the fastest car. Look where Mercedes finished in the World Cup… and he contained it brilliantly,” he says.
Alpine now faces a very important season in which they must take one more step to reach the level of the greatest. However, the march of Fernando Alonso It can be noticed, and a lot, in the team.