Esteban Ocon hopes Fernando Alonso has learnt something from him as the pair near the end of their time together. F1
Esteban Ocon has said he has taken many lessons from having Fernando Alonso as his team-mate, but hopes he has been able to return the favour as well.
Alonso came back to Formula 1 with Alpine at the start of last season, working alongside Ocon after a two-year sabbatical away from the sport. Alonso has built up a dominant record over his team-mates over his time in Formula 1, but Ocon has largely appeared a match for him at Alpine so far, having had an equal 11-11 qualifying head-to-head against each other last year, and the Frenchman taking his first race victory at Hungary last season.
While the 26-year-old has been able to lean on the vast experience of his Alpine colleague, he said that he hopes to have been able to offer lessons of his own to the two-time World Champion – believing he is second only to Lewis Hamilton in how well he has performed against Alonso in the same teamwhen it was put to him that some thought his career would be ‘over’ when Alonso arrived at Alpine.“Fernando is very, very fast, I don’t think he has anything to prove to anyone, and to those who say to me ‘who knows how much you’ve learnt with Fernando’ I say ‘of course’, but I hope he may have learnt something from me too.
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