BWT Alpine Racing F1 Sao Paulo GP race – Fighting comeback

13.11.2022: HEINEKEN SAO PAULO GRAND PRIX Interlagos, Brazil 11-13 November 2022 Sunday, November 13th 2022 BWT Alpine F1 Team demonstrate brilliant team display in So Paulo Grand Prix with fighting comeback from both Fernando and Esteban

HEINEKEN SAO PAULO GRAND PRIX
Interlagos, Brazil
11-13 November 2022
Sunday, November 13th 2022

BWT Alpine F1 Team demonstrate brilliant team display in São Paulo Grand Prix with fighting comeback from both Fernando and Esteban

BWT Alpine F1 Team scored 14 points from today’s São Paulo Grand Prix after Fernando Alonso stormed from seventeenth to fifth and Esteban Ocon from sixteenth to eighth in a brilliant team display at an excited Interlagos.

The team moves onto 167 points in the Constructors’ Championship and extends its advantage in fourth place.

Both drivers demonstrated good teamwork in the 71-lap race with Esteban on a two-stop Soft-Medium-Soft strategy and Fernando on a bold three-stop as he depended on a late charge on Softs to pick up a handful of places in the closing stages.

The team looked set to claim a solid top ten finish with both cars before a Virtual Safety Car, upgraded to a full Safety Car, for Lando Norris’s stoppage at Turn 10 on lap 50.

That set up a dramatic finale as Esteban impressively overtook both Sebastian Vettel and Valtteri Bottas to hold a comfortable eighth place. Fernando was able to go past Esteban cleanly at Turn 10 as he set his sights on chasing down the cars in front. The Spaniard seized on Sergio Perez to take fifth place and a deserved 10 points at the chequered flag.

Esteban Ocon, started P16, finished P8: “It’s a great result for the team today and I’m very happy with our race. We maximised the different strategies on both cars and scored fourteen points heading into the last race of the season. It was a good recovery drive from Fernando and me after starting from where we did, so credit to the team for the execution.

We knew we had to be at our best after yesterday’s disappointment and that’s exactly what we did in the race. The season is not over and we still have one more race to go. It’s going to be full push until the chequered flag in Abu Dhabi.”

Fernando Alonso, started P17, finished P5: “It was a very good race for us today here in São Paulo. The car was very competitive and with our race strategy we were out of sync with most of the cars.

Then, at the end, during the Safety Car period, I had newer tyres and we pushed as close to the front as we could; I overtook Sergio [Perez] and then I tried to look at Charles [Leclerc] but they were a step too fast for overtaking.

I made a mistake yesterday when Esteban and I made contact, so today we wanted to do our best and race hard for the team. We needed these points heading to Abu Dhabi. There is one more race with the team to go and my heart is in the racing.”

Otmar Szafnauer, Team Principal: “If yesterday was a low point in our season, today is certainly up there as a high. Congratulations to the entire team – both factories at Viry and Enstone – everyone trackside, and the drivers for a fantastic Sunday effort where we’ve scored 14 points and, importantly, extended our lead in fourth place in the Constructors’ Championship.

The race was well executed with both drivers showing very strong race pace, which allowed them to close in on the top ten. We had Esteban on a two-stop strategy where he utilised the pace on the Soft tyre at the start with Fernando on a three-stop with his aim to attack at the end of the race on his new set of Softs.

It worked out well with Esteban very comfortable inside the top 10 and Fernando benefitting from the VSC and SC in the closing stages to impressively overtake a number of cars on his way to fifth place. The championship is not over yet until the chequered flag drops in Abu Dhabi. We will remain focused, do our normal preparation next weekend, and give it our best to have both cars finish the season as strongly as possible. We’re nearly home…”
 
 

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