🗣️ 'I'm not quite sure why he keeps on. I guess we've got him rattled.' Alpine believes criticism from Lando Norris against the team is because he's concerned by the pace of McLaren's F1 rivals ⬇️
squad and its closest rival are having over fourth place in the F1 world constructors' championship.
Speaking at the Japanese GP, where Alpine retook fourth spot, Norris said:"They are so much quicker than us. I have no clue how we are still fighting them in the championship. "They must have done a lot worse than us in all of those areas to only just be ahead of us in the championship with the car they have. Not a surprise, it's not a big fight at the minute because they are so much quicker, but we'll keep trying and limit the points loss to them."
"We're much more focused on Mercedes and trying to beat Mercedes. We're trying to get ourselves onto that sort of level."Alpine's points haul this season has been dented by reliability problems, which included a double DNF at the Singapore Grand Prix."Of course, we had a huge setback in Singapore," he said."But I think in Japan, it's all back to normal.
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