Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi is hoping his recent damning words helped spark Esteban's Ocon third place in the Monaco GP Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi has eased a degree of the pressure he had placed on his previously under-performing team in the wake of Esteban Ocon's superb performance across the Monaco Grand Prix weekend. Rossi left no stone unturned in his condemnation of Alpine's performances leading into the Miami Grand Prix in early May, denouncing what he had so far witnessed to be amateurish, and placing team boss Otmar Szafnauer firmly in the firing line. Ocon and team-mate Pierre Gasly initially responded in Miami by finishing ninth and eighth respectively, an improvement on the failure...
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