There's a fire at home Alpine

There will always be excuses to try to justify your mistakes by passing them off as bad luck. The trick proves even more tempting in motorsport, a highly technological discipline. At least we had the elegance not to fall into this trap at Alpine, and to assume its responsibilities. “I don't want to put it down to bad luck, because I tend to think that we are responsible for our success, explained sports director Alan Permanente. We just didn't do a good enough job. » A month after putting on a show despite herself in Melbourne with a sheet metal crumpling workshop between Pierre Gasly et Esteban Ocon, the French team hardly helped its case in Azerbaijan, collecting a double zero score in Baku. These new negative results, at the heart of a disappointing start to the season, are beginning to instill doubt in the enlightened minds of the paddock. What is the true level of this stable supposed to chase the Star and the Prancing Horse rather than its demons? Alpine could she be regressing? 

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