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Best moment
While Alpine’s best moments have been far harder to come by (remember they had a podium in Monaco for this category in last year’s half term report), their Spanish Grand Prix outing is comfortably on top thanks to Gasly’s P9 and Ocon’s P10 securing a double points finish.
That was married with their best qualifying performance (Gasly: P7, Ocon: P9) and also came off the back of a double points finish in Canada too. All of that really gave a sense Alpine would be fighting in the top 10 again on a regular basis and the hard work was paying off. It would have been an important morale booster for everyone.
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Worst moment
Unfortunately, there’s a few candidates for this category. The coming together between Ocon and Gasly in Monaco – and the subsequent fallout – really didn’t shine a positive light on how things were working between the pair behind the scenes, while the upheaval regarding key personnel has continued.
However, we’re winding the clock back to the beginning of the year and the Bahrain Grand Prix, where the scale of Alpine’s problems on the track were fully realised as they qualified last and second last.
Both Gasly and Ocon, while downbeat, admitted they were not surprised by that qualifying result after saying they were on the “back foot” following pre-season testing. Things hardly improved in the race either with Ocon and Gasly only finishing P17 and P18 respectively.
That weekend signalled to everyone that 2024 was going to be far from a smooth ride for the Enstone team.
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