Alain Prost believes a “psychological game” should ensue between Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon at Alpine – but that neither ought to be “destabilised” by it. The four-time former World Champion, a special advisor to Alpine, knows all about intra-team rivalry for he experienced one of the most turbulent F1 colleague relationships with Ayrton Senna at McLaren during their dominant spell in the late 1980s. Both Alonso and Ocon have also had difficult associations with team-mates. The Spaniard famously clashed with Lewis Hamilton at McLaren in 2007, although things later improved considerably between them after they went their separate ways, while Ocon and Sergio Perez did not...
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