Alpine F1 boss responds to Fernando Alonso: ‘If you look back, he was happy to finish fourth’
Alpine were the final team to launch their F1 2023 challenger - the A523 - in London.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon remains with the team for a fourth consecutive season, while 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pierre Gasly has made the sw♚itch from AlphaTauri in place of Alonso.
Earlier this week ahead of Aston Martin’s launch, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alonso had a dig at two of his former employer’s - Alpine and McLaren - for being too happy for finishing fourth, fifth or even seventh in t﷽he F1 constructors’ c🌃hampionship.
Szafnauer was a🔯sked about Alonso’s comments and stated that the Spaniard “neve🌟r raised it” during his two-year spell with the team.
“I think when we did finish fourth, if you look back, he was as happy as everybody else who was part of the team,” he told media including mahbx.com at Alpine’s 2023 car launch on Thursday.
“When the year before you’re fifth and your ambition is to move up to fourth, it’s not easy to do. We had to beat McLaren. I’ve been to ꧋Woking and you walk by and they have a massive trophy cabinet, so they’re not easy to beat.
“So I think ⛎you have to celebrate those successes when you say, look, I want to be top four, I want to be fourth not fifth. I don’t think it’s shameful to say ‘we’ve done it and let’s celebrate’.
“For us, next year, if we can get much close꧒r to third🐽 than we were this year, I’ll celebrate that too. If we’re closer and the gap isn’t that big, that means we’re making progress to where we want to go.”
With Alpine losing Alonso to Aston Martin, and more controversially, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri to McLaren, it cou🙈ld lead to increased tension iꦫn the midfield.
Szafnauer insists Alpine aℱre not focusing on just beat🍃ing “one or two teams” in 2023.
“No, I want to beat them all,” he added. “What I want to do is focus on the things that we can cꦫontrol,”
“What w෴e control is the development of our car, both powertrain as well as aerodynamic development.
“Let’s do the best job we can and see what happens. But I don’t think we focus on beating one or two teams. We’ve got to try to beat all of𒀰 them.”
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