Alpine F1 driver Esteban Ocon is happy with the work done over the course of 2021 by his team, as the French constructor managed a fifth-placed finish in the teams’ championship. The Alpine name emerged as a rebranding of the Renault team in a bid to further promote their sports brand, and Ocon also found
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Honda’s Formula 1 boss Masashi Yamamoto believes that the manufacturer had too much respect for McLaren and vice-versa during their three torrid years in partnership with the team in the turbo-hybrid era of the sport. McLaren managed just two podium finishes in their last two years in partnership with Mercedes in 2013 and 2014, with
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Alpine F1 driver Fernando Alonso has opened up on his return to Formula 1 after two years on the side-lines. The Spaniard left the sport after spending four years with McLaren, having won 32 races in his career – the last of which came at the 2013 Spanish Grand Prix. He managed a podium finish
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Alpine F1 driver Fernando Alonso has congratulated Honda on their success following Max Verstappen’s maiden world title with Red Bull. Honda began supplying Red Bull at the start of 2019 following a largely successful trial year with AlphaTauri, and their power unit powered Verstappen to his first pole position in F1 at that year’s Hungarian
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Alpine F1 driver Fernando Alonso is set to undergo surgery before the beginning of the 2022 season following a bicycle crash in early 2021. Alonso was out cycling in Switzerland back in February when a heavy bike crash landed him in hospital, with police confirming a week later that he was hit by a car.
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Formula 1 champions Max Verstappen and Fernando Alonso are both set to auction cars, with Verstappen’s proceeds going to charity. The pair have three F1 championships between them, and Alonso’s 2004 Renault F1 car will be up for auction on 2 February. The blue and yellow R24, which helped Alonso to a fourth-placed championship finish
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Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi has described the dramatic nature of the 2021 title battle between Sir Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen as a “great advertisement” for Formula 1. Mercedes and Red Bull were locked in an intense battle throughout the entirety of the 2021 season, with Hamilton and Verstappen clashing several times en route to
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Double F1 World Champion Fernando Alonso has downplayed Sir Lewis Hamilton’s outstanding performance in last weekend’s Sao Paulo GP. The seven-time World Champion was fastest in qualifying on Friday but he was relegated to the back of the grid due to a DRS irregularity. In Saturday’s sprint, he worked his way up to P5 and
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Double F1 World Champion Fernando Alonso has said he expects Sir Lewis Hamilton to crack under pressure against Max Verstappen. Alonso, a former team-mate of Hamilton’s in their McLaren days, said he “100 percent” thinks the seven-time World Champion will succumb to pressure against the Dutch ace this season. Hamilton and Verstappen have been locked
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Double F1 World Champion Fernando Alonso has said Red Bull and Max Verstappen will need to defeat Sir Lewis Hamilton on their own, with the Spaniard saying his Alpine isn’t competitive enough for him to frequently battle his former team-mate. His comments come hot on the heels of senior Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko
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