Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi has explained why calling Esteban Ocon “at very least a very good second driver”, is not a suggestion that he is a number two-calibre driver. F1
Laurent Rossi clarifies why he calls Esteban Ocon ‘at very least a very good second driver’Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi continues to say that Esteban Ocon is “at very least a very good second driver”, but the meaning is not as harsh as it perhaps sounds.
Rossi though back in 2021, when referring to Ocon, said that he “might not be guaranteed World Champion material…so at the very least I have myself an excellent second driver.”that when he says Ocon is “a very good second driver” at the “very least”, that is not him referring to Ocon as a number two-level driver within a team.
“You need to feel comfortable about the fact that you’re going to drive for a while and you actually can make this job your job for real, not just a hobby, and it’s never ever been easy for him like really. “And so that’s why we decided to bet on him for three years, and give him a bit of a runway also, because back then, to be honest, nobody wanted to come to Alpine, let’s be clear, so it was as good a driver as we could get.
Ocon has certainly given himself some huge career highlights already with Alpine, having become a grand prix winner for the first time in 2021 when he took the chequered flag at the Hungarian Grand Prix. “So basically, it was different, and I told him now the thing is, you need to grow, like, grow up, like in many ways, and grow the team with yourself. That means you need to be more of a strategic driver and a leader, which is extremely different from just being a super-fast cool boy, that’s a different story.
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