Alpine’s worrying form may run into an unexpected ally at the next Brazilian Grand Prix . The French team has barely added three points in the last three events in Mexico, the United States and Turkey. That is the meager loot harvested by Esteban Ocon and a Fernando Alonso who knows Interlagos to perfection , both its many curves and the chaos that are often associated with it.
«Interlagos is a great circuit. Its history in Formula 1 is great and the fans know Formula 1 very well. There is always some drama in Brazil and we have to be prepared for that ”, harangued the Spaniard.
With four races remaining to close the World Championship, Alpine aims to make up ground on “a complicated circuit because it only has six or seven corners.” “Turn 2 and 3 don’t go through them as if they were curves. There are eight curves. To get a good time on a circuit so short and with so few corners you need to tackle every sector of the lap , so I think it is a circuit that rewards you a lot, ”said Fernando Alonso.
For his taste, that characteristic “drama ” of the Brazilian track doesn’t even need any help from the sky. “Normally I prefer dry track on all circuits, but at Interlagos even more because there is not even a straight, you are always in a corner. There are some difficult points, so I prefer that it does not rain ” , has settled.
In his season back to Formula 1, the two-time world champion is going through a delicate moment due to the poor performance of his A110S, which has seriously jeopardized fifth place in the Constructors’ World Championship, as AlphaTauri caught up with Alpine and added and to the same points (116). Brazil, where Fernando Alonso won his first world title 16 years ago, may be a good scenario for recovery before closing the course with the Arab triptych in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.
