When it seemed that the waters they had calmed down in Alpine, now his boss has been in charge of stirring up the tide a bit just before the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Just before the last Formula 1 weekend of 2022 and just before what will be the last race of Fernando Alonso with the Gauls Because Laurent Rossi, in the preview of Yas Marina, has made it clear.
He has made it tremendously clear in a sentence that comes at a time when everything already seemed part of the past. Because, despite what happened in the sprint in Brazil, the result of Alonso and Ocon in the final race, with a fifth and an eighth, seemed to have brought peace to Alpine.
But no, because the phrase, or rather the threat, from Rossi to his pilots after what happened in Brazil is one of those that they are rarely heard in F1 because of how hard they are.
“I reminded them of their contracts, and that I have a lot of drivers willing to race in their place. It would have been a shame to end the season with others…”, said the boss of the team in Abu Dhabi.
Then he continues: “They assumed their responsibility, And they did a brilliant job.”
“They are great champions, they have a killer instinct that sometimes it goes too far. I had to bring them back,” Rossi says.
The boss talks about what happened in the race: “There were no team orders. We told them that, if necessary, they should follow and comply with them.”
“We had two different strategies. We told them that we would ask for position changes. They did it. Everything perfect,” she says.