Esteban Ocon has completely sunk. This is how MD caught him while this newspaper was going to the interview area. Norman is about to leave Alpine hospitality. But his face paid off. He couldn’t hide the frustration and pain he felt. The pilot shook his head in denial as several people tried to console him with a hug. His teammate, Pierre Gasly, went all out and won a magnificent podium. Ocon took the cross after finishing 10th in a race where he had been very unhappy with the team’s strategy, still not understanding what they wanted to do and what their plan was.
In this sense, Ocon already showed his deep disappointment when he spoke for the F1 microphone. “First of all, I want to congratulate Pierre Gasly and the team. He did a great job and reached the team’s second podium this year. This is probably the only positive thing we can take away from this Sunday. For my part, I am super disappointed. I had made a good comeback from 16th to 6th place. We didn’t stop, we ran out of dry tires. The tires weren’t ready for the pits and we couldn’t make the right decision. 8 points slipped from our hand now and it’s very disappointing,” said the Normandy driver.
“There was a lot of discussion and all the information we needed. I don’t understand what happened, to be honest. But that’s why we only have one point now and not 8,” he added, making it clear to the others media that he and the team had different views during the race on the strategy to follow. In fact, Ocon had already shown on the radio his displeasure in the race with his team’s decision to put him on heavy rain tires when it started to rain heavily at the end of the event.
Ocon’s career, with everything against
Ocon’s career has been complicated. I started on the 16th. His teammate Gasly started 12th and his team had to get ahead of Pierre by stopping him earlier, on lap 1, when it started to rain. In this way, Esteban lost time by stopping on the second lap, and lost a great opportunity to get into a very good position in the race. And at the end of the event, when it rained again, he had to wait one more turn than he was supposed to change a tire, so he lost 2 places in the pits. On top, Ocon couldn’t understand why they would put the heavy rain on himbecause if the conditions are as bad as for heavy rain tires, it is clear that the management of the race will stop it with a red flag.
“Put me between the boys” asked before it stopped. They put rain tires on him and he was the only driver to do it. “This is the worst decision, guys, fuck,” the Frenchman commented on the radio.
They replied that it would rain heavily and last for 5 minutes. “Yes, but if you don’t know how to drive they will raise a red flag,” Ocon replied.. So it is. An accident in Zhou during heavy rains, came from the red flag previously announced by Esteban. Ocon was 11th. He managed to get a position on the restart to finish 10th and score a point, but little did he know. Your partners, Pierre Gasly, achieved third place in his same car.
Source: La Verdad
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