Since the preseason and after three races. It doesn’t matter if they barely add points. It doesn’t matter Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly They collided with each other at the Albert Park circuit. Nobody takes away Alpine’s optimism and nobody lowers him from the cloud.
Pat Fryhead of the French team, says that they must find “four or five tenths in qualifying” to be at the level of Ferrari, Mercedes or Ferrari. But achieving those tenths is a world in Formula 1.
“It’s good to see what comes out of the factory and other developments we have underway. We are at an average of four or five tenths that we have to find in qualifying, not to catch up with Red Bull, but to catch up with the others, who are within our reach. We just have to overcome them”, he has expressed in ‘The Race’.
And he warns about the “tools” that they have not yet used: “We are learning about the car all the time. There are some reasonable mechanical changes that we have made for this year that we are still learning and we have some tools that we can still use to improve.”
It’s Otmar Szafnaueralways optimistic, who has insisted that they are close: “We have 20 races left, let’s bring improvements and see if we can have the same pace and compete among the top five cars.”
“This year, if you’re competing for fourth place, you’re competing for second, we are that close”, releases the boss of Ocon and Gasly. A speech that no longer convinces almost anyone in the Great Circus.
