Formula 1 | Alpine smiles in Las Vegas thanks to Ocon

He can certainly smileAlpine for the excellent performance provided by Or with a Las Vegas. The Frenchman finished in fourth position after a beautiful comeback from the eighth row. Certainly the chaos at the start helped him make up a lot of ground in the very first laps, but his pace has always been competitive, in every situation and with different tire compounds. The same cannot be said for Gasley, who regressed from fourth to eleventh place: the former Red Bull in fact he suffered quite a bit in the stint on the hard tyres.

“Las Vegas was an encouraging weekend for the whole team – said Bruno Famin, Alpine interim team principal. If Saturday was a good day for Pierre, with a brilliant result on a single lap in qualifying, yesterday it was Esteban who drove splendidly, climbing from sixteenth to fourth position and gaining twelve points. He did a great job to avoid the chaos at the start, before launching into two well-managed stints to preserve the tires and maintain a competitive pace to the finish. However, we have a few things to review regarding Pierre. As a team, we will carefully analyze this weekend's performances before heading to Abu Dhabi for the last race of the season.