Alpine Racing
Esteban started the 2024 Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix . from P15 on New Hards and finished P14: Pit Stop on Lap 32 for New Mediums. Fastest Lap: 1min 24.343 secs. Pierre started from P14 on New Mediums and finished P15: Pit Stops on Lap 10 for New Hards, Lap 32 for New Hards. Fastest Lap: 1min 23.755 secs
Esteban Ocon
We tried everything this weekend to cover all possible scenarios. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to score any points. This wasn’t an easy race for anyone, and we need to review and understand which strategy could have been best. We split strategy, and I went for a one-stopper initially, so I stayed out quite long during the first stint, and many other teams did the same. I struggled with the tyres towards the end of the first stint, so maybe Medium-Hard would have worked better in hindsight. On the positive side, there were some solid performance improvements from Friday to Saturday, which we will now need to understand better to stay on top of the issues we were experiencing in Zandvoort. We will go to Baku again in two weeks, where we need to ensure we can return to the points.
Pierre Gasly
It was a long afternoon, and I was very disappointed. I thought we would have more potential in the race than yesterday when we qualified. We had a brake issue yesterday, which we discovered after Qualifying and carried into this afternoon. The car was bouncing a lot, and we lacked grip. We will now regroup and analyse the reasons why we weren’t able to be competitive this weekend compared to Zandvoort. We will understand and review the weekend to return stronger in Baku.
Oliver Oakes – Team Principal
We knew coming into the weekend it would be tough for us to repeat the performance of previous races, fighting in the points, particularly on this specific configuration of the circuit. We split strategies with different starting tyres to give us some flexibility in terms of strategy. Esteban did well in making a one-stop work and extending his first stint, and we tried a two-stop with Pierre. With both cars finishing within six seconds of each other, there was not much more we could have done today. Ultimately, we lacked the pace today to fight for points.
Looking forward to Baku!
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