Pierre Gasly vs Esteban Ocon at Alpine - who will be team leader? Will they clash?
Gasly and Ocon will form an all-French 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 2023 driver line-up for Alpine, the French team, rekindling their childhood friendshi🌊p which has since turned sour.
Gasly has signed a multi-year deal to join from AlphaTauri as the replacement for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso.
“Esteban will think he’s team leader because he’s part of the furniture now,” ex-F1 driver di꧒ Resta sꦚaid on Sky.
“But Pierre will come in and look at what F🐬ernando has been able to do aga🐎inst Esteban. Fernando has that wealth of experience.
“Pierre is comꦬing in thinking he’s the chosen one.
“That’s where they will come together. It will be cosy to begin with. But at some point they will come together on✃ the track.
“It depend𒀰s what the management🅷 says: ‘This is acceptable, this is not’.
“They may flourish. They may have the competition to driv♏e the team forwa♉rds.”
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jenson Button added: “French drivers in a French team? I don’t know if it will be like at Ferrari, with Italian drivers in an I🀅talian team. Not an easy atmosphere.”
Alonso was among the highest-paid in the list of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 driver salaries this season but, after A🌳lpine shed his pay packet, they will replace him with Gasly.
Gasly and Ocon are both 🅺currently earning an estimated £4.1m in 2022 but their pay next year could in൲dicate their seniority in Alpine’s eyes.
Gasly will be replaced by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nyck de Vries, who will partner 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Yuki Tsunoda, at AlphaTauri next season.
Ocon sho🍸ne in Qualifying for the F1 Japanese Grand Prix and will start in fifth, with Gasly 17th.
James was a sports jou𝓰rnalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
