A hundred race plan they had in Alpine to win. One who started does not know when and maybe they have to give it another thought. The French team, in a 2023 in which They should take a step forward They have given several backwards with a more than bad start in which They are not the fourth best team… nor is it clear that they are the fifth. But they ask for patience.
Patience for what is to come. Patience to approach the top three than, thank you to the miracle of Aston Martin, there are already four They are already the best four. Those who can and do think about podiums and winning. Something that in Alpine, for the moment, it will be not
Because Alonso was right leaving the French brand to start the risky adventure in Aston Martin. leaving the one who was fourth team for the ninth. For a team, that of Silverstone, which has improved so much in so little that everyone already points to them as an adversary both on Saturdays and Sundays. That of Alpine, at the moment, nobody says it.
“Pretty decent improvements” in Baku and Miami
Something that they want to reverse as soon as possible, and for this reason Otmar Szafnauer, head of the French, is already warning that the best may be yet to come.
“There will be improvements, quite decent, in Baku. And in Miami we are also going to have new parts”, insists the Romanian.
Alpine’s boss believes that the year is long and sends a message: “We are going to push a lot in development. The good thing is that the correlation with the simulator is positive. We will be able to fight.”
“If we follow the line of development of 2022 we will be closer. But it is hard. We know what we have, but not what the others have”, recounts Szafnauer.
The break is going to come in handy than others, Like Alonso, they say they don’t like it: “It’ll buy us more time. It wasn’t in our plans, but…”
In three races, 8 points; Aston Martin, 65
In three races, Alpine’s baggage of points is eight, with the 4 and 4 that Ocon and Gasly scored one in Saudi Arabia and the other in Bahrain. In Australia, both to zero due to an accident between them.
