‘Ocon won’t be in Alonso’s shadow at Alpine’
Date published:
January 21 2021
Alpine’s Esteban Ocon has what it takes to give Fernando Alonso a tough challenge in 2021, according to the team’s reserve driver Sergey Sirotkin.
Two-time former World Champion Alonso will represent the newly-branded Alpine Formula 1 team, previously known as Renault, and many believe he will be paces ahead of French team-mate Ocon.
Ocon has a season’s experience driving for Renault in 2020, while Alonso himself has been away from the sport for the past two years, although he did impress in the end-of-season ‘Young Driver’ test in Abu Dhabi.