Alonso, Ocon blame each other for collision

Alpine teammates Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon blamed each different for the collisions which volition spot them commencement astatine the rear extremity of the grid for Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix.

Alonso, who is leaving Alpine for Aston Martin adjacent year, doubly made interaction with his teammate connected the opening thigh of Saturday's sprint race.

Both cars were damaged and tumbled down the order, with Alonso finishing 15th and 18th successful a car which had looked competitory capable for a beardown decorativeness successful the points.

After the collisions, Alonso told Alpine implicit the radio: "I mislaid the beforehand helping acknowledgment to our friend."

In different broadcasted message, Alonso said: "He pushed maine disconnected astatine Turn 4 and past connected the straight. Well done."

The brace person visited the stewards implicit the incident, with the stewards relegating Alonso down Ocon to 18th connected the grid arsenic punishment for the collision.

When asked aft the sprint contention if helium needs to speech to Ocon to creaseless things over, Alonso said: "No, not really. I don't need. It's 1 much contention past it's over, finally!"

The two-time satellite champion past took a further excavation astatine his French teammate, referencing not lone respective compromising incidents betwixt them this twelvemonth but besides Ocon's collisions with then-Force India teammate Sergio Perez and his collision with Max Verstappen astatine the 2018 Brazilian Grand Prix.

"I was precise adjacent to the partition successful Jeddah, I think. Close to the partition successful Budapest. Today successful Turn 4 present here. So, either way, these things are... sometimes it's precise competitory wrong a team.

"It happened to him with Perez, with Verstappen, unlapping himself so... It's 1 much race."

Ocon's presumption of the incidental was that Alonso had been astatine fault.

"It is unfortunate what happened connected thigh one, I was trying to onslaught the McLaren, took my enactment into Turn 4 and Fernando came retired of obscurity from the outside. So we touched. From determination my contention was beauteous overmuch over."

When told Alonso was not excessively calm astir the incidental connected the radio, Ocon laughed and replied: "Well, I'm rather calm. If helium isn't, helium volition be!"

Making matters worse for Alpine was that Ocon's occurrence caught occurrence aft helium had parked it up aft the race.

"The sidepod is wholly open," the French operator added. "I don't cognize however it didn't alert off. And the car was connected occurrence arsenic well, truthful I anticipation astatine the extremity determination was not much damage.

"I near the car, I did a mates of steps, I went up to the standard and past I saw a car connected fire. I thought it was the Williams, but no, it was mine...the full bodywork is damaged, that's for sure. I don't cognize what the consequences are going to be."