Collision With Alonso In Brazil's F1 Sprint Shootout Session, Esteban Ocon: Total, Fernando!

JAKARTA - A fight and a hot situation occurred between Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon at the 2023 Brazilian F1 sprintout session which took place on Sunday, November 5. The incident began when a collision occurred in the SQ1 session when Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon drove to bend 3 of the Interlagos Circuit.

At that time Alonso who was at the front, drove slowly outside the racing line because it was almost certain to secure his position to enter SQ2. However, behind him was Ocon who was going very fast because he tried to improve his time record to get up to SQ2. The collision then was inevitable when Ocon lost the tire grip while passing through bend 3. He immediately hit Alonso's car which was driving slowly.

Because of the collision, the Ocon car became out of control and hit the track divider wall, while Alonso's car suffered damage to the left and front.

"Idiot, Fernando!" said Ocon via radio team, right after the collision occurred as quoted from the video circulating.

Because of this incident, Ocon was forced to leave the sprint shootout session early and failed to get on to SQ2. Meanwhile, Alonso, who had already passed to SQ2, could not even continue because his car was damaged.

The damage that occurred in Alonso's car has actually been trying to be repaired by Aston Martin's team. However, there is not enough time to make Alonso's AMR23 recover to its maximum use.

The situation heated after the race ended because the two racers competed in a statement in front of the media covering.

People say I lost control of his car, that's not true. All the riders are having a correction at that corner. Even on Fernando's fastest lap, he also experienced it and went wide like that," said Ocon, quoted by PlanetF1.

"Fernando moved his steering wheel to the left right in the middle of the corner and didn't give me space so we collided. Fernando tried to fight all the arguments that he gave space, but in fact he wasn't there right," he added.

In another situation, Alonso also replied to the statement of his former team-mate with a fairly striking reply.

"He (Esteban Ocon) is still very mature and does not change his perspective, but yes, there are many things that cannot change. He was treated like last year and remained there, like last year. So it's all normal," said Alonso.

When there's an Alpine, you have to be extra careful. We rammed around the corner 6, they thought our car was definitely smaller, and I had to end up on the grass again, "this two-time world champion joke.