Alpine’s 2021 season ebbed and flowed dramatically with Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon qualifying between fifth and 17th place in the first half of the year, their points finishes proving equally irregular.
Before the summer break the team enjoyed a breakthrough Hungarian Grand Prix, in which Ocon took his maiden grand prix win and Alonso grabbed fourth.
Several strong showings followed in the latter half of the season, most notably in Zandvoort, Russia and Qatar, which yielded a podium for Alonso, but it was nowhere in Monza, Austin and Mexico.
CEO Rossi admitted Alpine was “lost” in the early stages of 2021, saying the team “didn’t even know” how it managed to score points in a troublesome Monaco weekend.
“At the beginning of the season we were lost,” Rossi said. “Monaco is actually a very poor memory and that moment we were lost we had no idea what to do. We scored points, but we didn’t even know how.
“That was difficult because we couldn’t understand the car so well. It was…
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