Under the guise of Renault, the 2020 team achieved three podiums on the way to fifth place in the constructors’ championship.
After a slow start to the season in 2021, the Enstone-based team showed strong performances in Portimao and Barcelona to get their season going again.
Ocon and Fernando Alonso finished seventh and eighth in Portugal, while an unsuccessful one-stop strategy in Spain meant the Frenchman didn’t turn fifth on the grid into a big score.
When asked about Alpine’s chances of finishing on the podium this season, Ocon said: “I think anything is possible in the race. Last year when Daniel was on the podium, a few things happened in the race. When I got on the podium in Bahrain, a few things happened in the race.
“At a pure pace and if everyone is on the right track, we are not yet fast enough for the podium, but we will try to achieve this as we did last year. So it won’t be easy, but anything can happen in these crazy years we live in. “
Ocon is confident that he will continue his impressive qualification in Monaco this weekend as overtaking is very difficult.
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“Until we park the car there and do qualifying, we won’t know for sure, but I think if we look at our performance in qualifying we should be in good shape in Monaco,” added Ocon.
“I hope we can do that well, so I think we can give the Ferraris and the other cars a fight in qualifying. I am pretty confident. The place we need to focus on – the race – in Monaco is tough to overtake so it’s less of a critical point, but I think we’re a little bit slower than Ferrari right now and a little bit slower than McLaren when it is all about pure speed in the race. ”
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