‘We’ll never be best friends’ but Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon vow to work together at Alpine F1
Gasly has joined Ocon to form an all-French line-up at Alpine, having been signed to replace two-time world champion168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Fernando Alonso, who moved to Ast♍on Martin over the winter.
The pair were childhood friends and karting rivals but have endured an uneasy relationship in recent years after a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:falling out.
“I think it’s been really good,” Gasly said 🌄of his initial experience of working alongside Ocon.
“We’ve spent more tཧime together in the past two months than we’ve spent in the last eight years or 10 years. I think it was very important and I’m pleased with the way things are going with Esteban.
“I think we are both grown-up people now, much more mature. Aware of the responsibilities that we have repres🐼enting a team like Alpine with the Renault Group behi𝔉nd us.
“I have no doubts that we will b🦄e able to work well and push the team forward.ꦛ It’s going to benefit all of us.”
Ocon said he and new teammate Ga𓃲sly are “never going to☂ be best friends” but is sure they can work together to help Alpine achieve their goals.
“We are never going to be best friend♛s, but the important thing is to keep the flow going together, which creates debate and solutions with the team and that’s how it’s been in motorsport foreverꦫ,” he explained.
"The fact that the drivers work toಞgether and notify any issue or a way to work and the team comes up with some resolutions, and that’s what we 🍷need to try and get from our team to be able to fight at the front.”
Ocon and Alonꦓso had several on-track clashes as a feisty intra-team battle brewed last season, and the Frenchman said he has no plans to change his aggressive approach.
“I’m a racing driver, I’m competing to beat everyone,” he said.▨
“That’s how I’ve been racing my whole life and how I’ve succ🔯eeded and won titles in the past. And t🌌hat’s how in the end I beat Fernando as well, racing how I want to race.
"For me it’s iღmportant to score the points and work together with Pierre, that’s very imp🍎ortant. But I want to fight anyone and I believe I can fight anyone.”
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