May 29 Esteban Ocon raced through an apparent spat between his Alpine team bosses to put the Renault-owned team back on track in Monaco. In Miami recently, it became clear that new-in-2022 team boss Otmar Szafnauer was in the hot seat as Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi singled him out amid Alpine's failure to improve for 2023. Rossi used words including 'dilettantes' and 'amateurish' to describe the Enstone based team and pointed out that Szafnauer was obviously the head of the snake. When asked about it in Monaco, Szafnauer admitted he will need to make changes. 'We hit most of our targets, not all of them, over the winter,' he said, 'and for us to hit all of them we have to make some changes...
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