Formula 1: Ocon’s impressive crash with Alonso in Brazil

The weekend starts badly for Esteban Ocon in Brazil. Already penalized by two places on the starting grid for Sunday’s Sao Paulo Grand Prix, the Alpine driver experienced a catastrophic start to the day this Saturday before the sprint race. During the “shoot-out”, the qualifying session for this reduced format race, the Frenchman violently collided with Fernando Alonso. An impressive crash!

At the exit of Senna’s famous “S”, the first serpentine turns of the Autodromo José Carlos Pace circuit, while he was embarking on a fast lap, Ocon found Alonso on his way who had just finished his lap, and was traveling at a much lower speed. In view of the numerous slow motions, the Spanish driver seems to have fallen a little too far to the right before the arrival of the tricolor, who, for his part, oversteered slightly, and did not hold the rope at the exit of the turn .

“Fernando cuts off Esteban”

Ocon then hit Alonso’s left front wheel at full speed, before hitting the wall, shooting straight ahead. “F***ing idiot Alonso,” he said on the radio before assuring that “everything was fine.” The Aston Martin driver, for his part, was able to reach the pits with a well-damaged car all the same.

But then who is to blame for this impressive crash? For Bruno Famin, the director of Alpine, there is no debate with the first images available. “We haven’t done the analysis yet, but we have a first impression. It appears to us that Fernando (Alonso) cuts the road of Esteban (Ocon) who was on a flying lap. There is absolutely nothing he can do to avoid the accident. Fernando’s maneuver seems extremely dangerous,” he explained on Canal +.

The accident between the two drivers caused a red flag and the start of the qualifying session to be interrupted. Ocon obviously couldn’t resume, neither did Alonso. Enough to also disrupt his participation in the sprint race this Saturday at 7:10 p.m. “If the chassis is damaged, it’s dead because we’re not allowed to change it in the same day. If the chassis is intact, we will do our best so that it can run,” replied Bruno Famin. The weekend is off to a bad start at Alpine.