2023-05-07 12:01:31
Laurent Rossi demands a questioning within his team. FLORENT GOODEN
The boss of the Alpine team is not at all satisfied with the work of his troops since the start of the season and did not mince words to say so in Miami.
Sixth in the constructors’ standings with only eight points, Alpine did not make a start to the championship in line with the ambitions displayed at the start of the season. The objective of being the fourth force on the board by getting closer to the “untouchables” Red Bull, Mercedes and Ferrari is far from being achieved. McLaren and especially Aston Martin are pushing the French team up the hierarchy for the moment.
Difficulties that prompted Laurent Rossi to make an update during the Miami Grand Prix, the fifth round of the championship this weekend. The boss of the French team did not take gloves to make an initial assessment of the first four races of the year at the microphone of Canal+. A lucid and firm speech. “It (the start of the season, editor’s note) is disappointing and I want to say that it is even bad. Finally, this year, we started with a performance handicap and also an execution handicap. And it shows. We are in a ranking that is not at all worthy of the resources involved. We are quite far very far from the final objective of the year“, regrets the leader.
Without pointing a finger at his pilots, Rossi called on his troops to question themselves deeply in order to raise the bar. “What I see is that of course there is a lack of performance, but also a lack of rigor and execution, but potentially a state of mind that is not up to what has been done in the past by this team. I didn’t like the first grand prix because there was a lot of, and I have to tell you, dilettantism. This led to an outcome that was not good and poor and bad“Added the CEO of Alpine sounding the alarm.
Alpine achieves its best qualifications in 2023 in Miami
A nightmarish start in Bahrain for Ocon, a disastrous clash between the Normand and his team-mate in Melbourne then cascading trouble in Baku last week, the weekends of the Grand Prix tend to look a little too often alike according to the Corsican who believes that his team is not progressing enough. “Baku’s Last Run furiously resembles that of Bahrain and that is not acceptable. We have the right to make mistakes, it’s a basic principle. It is in mistakes that we learn. When you make the same mistakes twice, that’s because you haven’t learned and you don’t take responsibility. And this is not acceptable“, he concluded.
Message heard from the side of the Blues? On Saturday in Miami, the two Alpine A523s achieved their best qualifying results in 2023 with fifth place for Pierre Gasly and eighth for Esteban Ocon.
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