Ocon attacks Alonso and insults him on the radio: “Idiot Fernando”

Esteban Ocon has attacked Fernando Alonso during the first round of qualifying for this Saturday’s sprint race in Brazil. The Frenchman, who ended up crashing at high speed against the protection barriers at Turn 3 at Interlagos, destroying his Alpinehas immediately blamed Alonso of the accident, to whom he has insulted on the radio: “P… idiot Fernando!”.

The Frenchman was beginning his fastest lap when he met Alonso on the track. The Asturian moved out of the way to let him pass, but Ocon lost control of his car and collided with the Aston Martinwhich ended up with a broken suspension and could not be repaired in time to compete in the second qualifying round, which relegated Alonso to 15th place on the grid in the sprint race.

With everything, Fernando He did not want to add ‘fuel to the fire’ and downplayed the incident, at least in his first reflections: “Unfortunately, we were not able to finish qualifying. It’s a shame, both cars had a lot of damage. It’s not what we wanted. No. I haven’t seen the replay yet, but someone told me that he (Or with) lost the car a little bit and, well, one of those being in the wrong place at the wrong time situations.

“A great impact”

However, the Frenchman’s anger has continued: “It is difficult to digest because I was coming back to move on to SQ2 and I found myself Fernando. We have corrections like that all over the paddock. Fernando “He went left in the middle of the curve, he didn’t leave me enough space and we crashed,” he explained.

“It was a big impact, very strong, so I’m a little sore, but it doesn’t matter, we will continue racing. I heard people say that he had lost the car. It’s not true. Fernando went to the left in the middle of the road. curve, and did not leave enough space,” he insisted.

The commissioners have opened an investigation and have called Alonso to declare after classification. Pedro de la Rosa has revealed on DAZN that there will be no sanction for either of the two protagonists, as it is considered a fortuitous “happening.” And shortly after the official notification from the FIA ​​arrived.

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A logical decision seeing the different images of the accident captured from the stands and from the perspectives of both drivers in the cameras installed in their cars, in which it can be seen that Ocon cannot control his car. According to the FIA, “Or with lost control and went longer, while Alonso moved more towards the ideal line leaving less space.

The Asturian was later more forceful: “Yes, I heard what that boy said… he is still very immature and his way of seeing things hasn’t changed, but hey, there are other things that don’t change either… he came out behind me like last year, and stayed behind me, like last year. So everything goes on as normal.”



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