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Alonso ‘100% crucial' in ensuring Ocon victory

Esteban Ocon took the chequered flag but Fernando Alonso was '100 percent, undoubtedly crucial' for that win says Alpine sporting director Alan Permane. Ocon was the big winner in Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix as the Frenchman found himself P1 after the red flag, benefitting from Valtteri Bottas' lap 1 carnage and Lewis Hamilton's decision to line up on the grid at the restart when all his remaining rivals pitted for slick tyres. The Frenchman raced like a driver who was used to leading grands prix, not putting a wheel wrong despite the pressure applied lap after lap by Sebastian Vettel. Ocon clinched the victory, his first in Formula 1 and his first since winning the opening race in the...
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