It was a festive weekend in Alpine. Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly They reached the podium in Brazil. Something that seemed impossible with this car and a year in which they suffered so much. But in the water, it’s equal and the French team took the advantage.
Your new advisor, Flavio Briatoretook advantage of this superb result to throw a dart at the other teams. And while he doesn’t name names, it appears he’s referring to Aston Martin: “Unlike many teams who, when they take a step, go backwards instead of forwards.we have improved. Well done to the engineers and well done to everyone.”
This is what he says in ‘Formula Passion’: “This year we cleaned house. We are cleaning everything and we have made progress in terms of updates, quite simply so as not to hinder the car of 2025…”.
He wants Alpine to return to the origins of Renault: “We need to go back to people working for a racing team and not a company, so we’ve put things back the way they should be. The Enstone-based team is completely independent, so we’re going back to the days of that what was Renault before”.
Equality in the wet
The rain allowed Alpine to sneak in among the best at Interlagos. “In the wet the problem of engine power is eliminated, so even in 2025 we will have to compensate for the three tenths we are missing by making a better car…” explains Briatore.
But the long-term goal is to regain these performances also in normal conditions: “We don’t have to worry, we know that it is like that and we will have to try to do it well using more aerodynamics , in addition to studying the tires and not feeling sorry for ourselves.”
