Otmar Szafnauer assured that Alpine was going to surprise with the arrival of summer and it has been. Although they have not done it in the sense that the head of the French team wanted.
After the conclusion of the Austrian Grand Prix, Aston Martin contested the race claiming that there had been a large number of drivers who had breached track limits without the sports commissioners having investigated it, and those of Enstone have been the main victims.
Esteban Ocon has been penalized up to four times, that is to say, he has left the route ten times. For this reason, race management has applied 30 second penaltywith which it falls to the fourteenth position.
ANDn recent years something similar has only happened once. It happened this season, at the Bahrain Grand Prix and it also had Ocon as the protagonist. That day he received three penalties. Today he has broken his own record.
But this was not the only drama for Alpine. Pierre Gasly has also been penalized for breaking track limits, although in his case they are “only” ten secondswhich makes it fall from ninth to tenth position, losing a point in favor of Lance Strolhe
