Alpine end F1Testing optimistic about the performance of the A523, but the full pecking order will reveal itself next weekend in Bahrain. F1
Esteban Ocon reveals ‘good surprise’ about Alpine and downplays porpoising concernAlpine’s Esteban Ocon says the team’s new A523 has given him a pleasant surprise on track, and reckons porpoising concerns are overblown.
Ocon finished 12th at the end of the second day of testing, with his best time some 1.8 seconds from the front having set his best time on the C3 compound. “The car is much more stable in entry of corners, to attack the entries, it gives you a lot more confidence and it’s a much greater balance,” he told media, including PlanetF1.com, in Bahrain.Asked by PlanetF1.com as to what weaknesses he’s identified on the machine, he was understandably reluctant to reveal.“I obviously don’t want people to know. But from run one really, we identified the direction to go for and how to optimise it as much as we can.
With cameras having picked up some apparent dramatic porpoising on the Alpine, Ocon said that moment had likely been during an extreme setup experiment.
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