Alpine interim Formula 1 boss Bruno Famin says the team did the right thing by asking Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon to swap places on the final lap of the Japanese GP.
When it became clear that Gasly was not going to get close enough to Alonso, it issued the order for him to reverse their positions.
"As a team 10th and ninth or ninth and 10th is the same, but it was definitely not something I expected," he said."It's not something I really understand as well as I was the leading car, so we'll talk about it." "Of course, with the stress of the race, we may have some declarations [that are] a bit strong, but I have absolutely no doubt about the drivers being on the same line together."For having the best team result, we left Pierre in front of Esteban to have the possibility, even if it was small, of trying to catch Fernando. This was not possible [in the end] so to swap back is very normal.
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