Listen to this article In the early stages of the race, Ocon battled with teammate Fernando Alonso, and he eventually finished sixth after the Spaniard retired with a loss of drive. At some stages of the race he also fought with other cars, notably the McLaren of Lando Norris in the closing laps of the race, with his sixth place lifting Alpine up to fourth in the early F1 world constructors’ standings. Ocon made it clear that Renault has made a step with its revised power unit which has helped him to fight with rivals, after they missed out on straightline speed performance in 2021. “Good. I mean, we didn’t have to be shy of anybody,” he said when asked by Motorsport.com about the form of the power unit. “As soon as I had the DRS open I could pass, I could overtake easily the Aston of Nico [Hulkenberg], Lando in the McLaren. “Who else? I mean Fernando of course was there. I could compare to many different cars, and it was working well for us.” Ocon beat George Russell to fifth on the grid in Jeddah, but he acknowledged that Mercedes is still ahead in the battle to be th …