VIDEO. With Zinédine Zidane, Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon

“When I was little, I only dreamed of one thing: being able to compete in the World Cup. And that was my dearest wish. In the neighborhood, with friends, it’s a bad fit. But when, afterwards, you experience that, it’s incredible emotions, so I wish that to everyone. And the field of Formula 1 today, well yes, it is possible to enter it” explains Zinédine Zidane, ambassador for the CEMA and equal opportunities Rac(H)er programs at Alpine. The first values ​​”the integration and apprenticeship of young people in the mechanical sector“. The second promotes parity among automobile drivers. He adds: “At Alpine, between the Rac(H)er girls, and CEMA, we show that at a given moment, we can have the opportunity to join this family (of motorsport)… I would even say Formula 1 because ‘in reality, a young person who plays a mechanical sport wants to dream’.

“The important thing is the guts and the passion”

“It doesn’t matter where we come from, who we are, what nationality we are, if we are a woman or a man, it doesn’t matter, as Zinédine said, we are all young at one time, we all dream of something thing and that’s what we have in there, the important thing, in our guts, the passion, what we want to do, if we want to get there…” says Esteban Ocon, F1 driver. He himself confides that when he was “younger”, we told him “all the time” that “it wasn’t going to be possible, (that he) came from a world too far away”. In his time he would have liked to have had advice on how to enter the world of Formula 1 more easily. “We have to push meritocracy, and today, that’s what we’re doing with Alpine” concludes the pilot.