Alpine’s 2022 season can be looked at as a glass half full or half empty, as the team managed to hold off a late advance from McLaren for fourth place in the championship, but also faced a whole host of reliability issues. Fernando Alonso alone was forced to retire from six races in 2022, causing
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While Alpine secured the best of the rest title in the constructors’ championship, they will be disappointed to not have seen one of their drivers stand on the podium at least once in 2022. Fernando Alonso was forced to retire from an astounding six races last season, while his teammate Esteban Ocon also failed to
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Esteban Ocon’s story in Formula 1 has been far from straightforward for the Frenchman, having been dropped from the sport at the end of 2018 only to return years later. The 26-year-old was involved in a relatively toxic relationship with his Force India teammate Sergio Perez during his two years with the team and when
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Alpine have been on a steady rise since the re-brand of Renault at the start of 2021, with the team securing fifth and fourth place finishes in their first two seasons in the sport. A driver pairing of Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon had proved a formidably but toxic partnership in their two years together
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Esteban Ocon shocked the Formula 1 world as he picked up the first win of his Formula 1 career in Hungary last year, in an incident-filled race in mixed conditions. Valtteri Bottas braking late into Turn 1 in the wet conditions saw the Finn cause a pile up, which saw multiple cars retire and Max
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Alpine’s driver line-up in 2023 will hopefully be a lot more of a harmonious one than the partnership they harboured this year, with Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon becoming involved in numerous spats with each other over the course of the season. Alonso made repeated jabs at his teammate in the media, claiming that he
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Alpine will have an all-French driver line-up in 2023 after a complex domino effect involving Fernando Alonso, Oscar Piastri and Pierre Gasly saw the latter driver freed from the Red Bull system to race for the French team. The team initially wanted to replace the Aston Martin-bound Alonso with their young driver Piastri. However after
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With Alpine having sealed fourth in the 2022 Constructors’ Championship, the Enstone-based team are quickly turning their attention to 2023, a year which will see the side have an exciting all-French line-up. The issue for Alpine is that the partnership of Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly is exciting for all the wrong reasons, with the
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Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso have come to blows numerous times in recent weeks, with the Spaniard becoming very vocal about his discontent with his team this season. Alonso has blamed Alpine for favouring Ocon, as he has experienced an extreme amount of mechanical issues this season which he puts down to his team’s preference
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With another season of Formula 1 completed, a vast number of the drivers have been seen letting their hair down and partying the night away – a completely understandable source of entertainment following a gruelling calendar. Mick Schumacher, Lando Norris and Esteban Ocon were all spotted partying together recently, with a photo of their time
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