Ocon: Warnings about Alonso as F1 teammate proved to be imperfect

Alonso made his comeback to huge prix racing this year with Alpine, having left F1 at the tip of 2018 following a profession where he earned a recognition as being beautiful ruthless along with his teammates.

For Ocon, the chance of going up in opposition to the two-time world champion was once going to be a beautiful colossal field heading in the appropriate route, and he was once smartly mindful that it could moreover fair no longer dangle been straightforward to manage with out of the automobile too. However he says issues that had been aired to him by a different of folks, concerning the chance for anxiousness in being Alonso’s teammate, proved very broad of the impress.

As an different he says the pair dangle gelled extremely smartly.

“I had hundreds of things coming from many different folks, warning me and telling me what they heard from the outside and all that,” acknowledged Ocon when requested by Motorsport.com concerning the reference to Alonso. “However it completely have to be acknowledged, I create no longer dangle any of these complications. Interior the team the atmosphere is gargantuan and we’re working all together, sharing files as we now dangle to.

“K, we’re no longer combating for one and two on this planet championship, so presumably it could be different.

“However now, there have not been any of these [problems]. I’m happy to be to be working with Fernando, I judge we now dangle a good relationship and it’s been going gargantuan.”

After Ocon’s triumph at final weekend’s Hungarian GP, Alonso stuck spherical in parc ferme to congratulate his teammate on his maiden F1 triumph.

And it was once no longer misplaced on Ocon himself concerning the important feature Alonso performed in retaining up Lewis Hamilton for several laps in the closing stages to abet lengthen the enviornment champion’s doubtless price to the entrance.

Speaking after the flee, Ocon acknowledged: “I are desirous to bellow a different thanks to Fernando who has been combating bask in a lion in that flee, because that potentially contributed also to giving us a plight, giving us a tiny of a breather.

“I acknowledged it to many different press available, I bought hundreds of infamous comments about Fernando sooner than he joined the team and I tell you that we’re forming a gargantuan duo together, we’re pushing the team in the same route.

“Expectantly it’s a ways the main buy of many for us and with any luck we are in a position to half a podium in a transient time.”