Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gaslyagainst the wall in Australia. An accident between the two Alpine riders at the Albert Park restart that left the French team one more weekend without points. His start to the season is disastrous. And despite everything they continue to aspire even to the second position.
otmar szafnauer, Alpine boss, ensures that the team is not concerned about the budget limit. “From a budget cap perspective, I think we’ll be fine for everything I know…”, he expressed in statements collected by ‘Car and Driver’.
“I don’t think there’s any concern.. It will be expensive, so from an economic perspective it probably would have been a lot less expensive if it hadn’t happened.”
“We will do everything possible to get enough parts for the next race and to bring the update that is coming,” he says.
Szafnauer does not seem to be very concerned about the accident of his two drivers. Neither for the results: eight points in three races and very far from the podiums and the head.
Otmar is always optimistic and believes that with improvements in baku they’ll even make it to the second team: “This year, if you’re vying for fourth, you’re vying for second, we’re that close.”
“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,” explained the Romanian boss, who expects better results next weekend. week.
