'We took a lot on this year, changing a huge amount.' Alpine's chief technical officer Pat Fry has no regrets about that, despite the inevitable downside... 🔧
Alonso is likely to have to take another new PU and thus a grid penalty, possibly in Austin, although the team hopes that Ocon can make it to the end of the season with no new elements.
"Some great work has gone on, but it was always done knowing that we'd chase performance - and reliability we'll fix. And I think that's a courageous way of moving forward, isn't it? Every now and then you get caught out, as everyone does.""We discovered it was two different problems, things happened differently," said Ocon."It's frustrating to not finish the race, especially with everything that happened in the later part.
"We just need to run two normal weekends, on both sides. And to score the points that we can with the car we have, because it's more than possible. Fry noted that the Renault engineers already understand what failed in Singapore, and are now working on why it happened.
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